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TIL the Moon has at least a partly molten core, discovered through the seismic analysis of moonquakes.

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6EgMW TIL there is an Asian Elephant sanctuary in Thailand for elephants that have been subject to cruelty by bad owners. Some are driven to exhaustion when used for logging, others are tortured to subdue them to become tame for tourist rides.
mxGWx TIL about Windjammer Surf Racers, a roller coaster that was so bad and poorly designed that the park, Knotts Berry Farm, sued the ride’s manufacturer, TOGO, for its issues. The park won, causing the company to go bankrupt.
eK8n TIL South African Department of Health Distributed 44 million condoms, stapling each one to instruction cards written in the country’s 11 official languages.
9YRQp TIL just a couple of months into their development, little humans begin peeing freely into the amniotic fluid that surrounds them in the womb. Every last one of us has spent several months drinking our own pee.
5A9D TIL Texas attorney general threatened international observers from OSCE with arrests and criminal charges if they were to monitor the 2012 elections in that state.