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TIL that Japan has an early warning system for earthquakes that notifies you on your smartphone and radio seconds before it happens.

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Yp9pG TIL: Of the Mercator projection which is the standard map projection which makes Greenland appears the same size as Africa, when in reality Africa's area is 14 times greater.
R7P84 TIL that Scientists at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany have discovered that since peanut butter is so rich in carbon, it's possible to turn into diamonds.
XEyyj TIL that cavemen had relatively straight teeth and that crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon
Brbjb TIL there is a worm that looks kinda like a hammerhead shark
Q8rd TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved