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TIL there was a bridge in southern Hungary that was found to still be rigged with dynamite from World War II…in October of 1999.

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X0AN8 TIL the population of vultures in South Asia has decreased by 99.95% since the 1990s. Researchers discovered the culprit to be an anti-inflammatory drug, Diclofenac, which was being commonly administered to livestock. This represents the sharpest rate of decline of any animal known to man.
4PMR TIL of Rhythm 0, a six-hour work by performance artist Marina Abramović. The audience was invited to do whatever they wished to and/or with the artist, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table for this purpose including a rose, feather, scalpel, metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet.
Yyd7 TIL Spock’s “Live Long and Prosper” Vulcan hand gesture will soon be available to use as an emoji, just like ?, ✌, and ?. It was officially added to Unicode last year.
Y7kGB TIL there are public fountains in Paris that literally flow with free, clean sparkling water! Residents fill up bottles to take home instead of buying bottled water in stores
o4wA TIL We see the colors that we do because that is just about the only spectrum of light that passes through water, the area where eyes first evolved. There hasn’t been any evolutionary reason on land to see any broader spectrum.