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TIL Candles have “memories”- if candles are not allowed to burn long enough to reach the edge of their container, it creates a “memory ring” and the candle will never melt past that point creating a tunneling effect.

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0wddj TIL overworked robots bleed red beads
xVZ91 TIL that on the island of Melanesia, natives there reenact US military parades and made a fake runway with fake airplanes to pray for the return of a US soldier by the name of John Frum so that he could bring them cargo filled with industrial blessings such as medicine, guns, and canned goods.
Eg7P TIL the Euro is the official trading currency of Cuba, North Korea and Syria
Bg0px TIL some tortoises live in arid environments and steppes
wLNmP TIL John Williams' soundtrack in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" lost to Howard Shore's score of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" for Best Original Score. Critical reactions to the soundtrack were almost universally positive