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TIL There is a lake in Tanzania that turns animals into stone.

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WkZed TIL that the Gurkha Contingent is the last remaining unit in Singapore to employ original British drill commands.
GYm54 TIL of Vinicunca or the Mountain of seven colours in Peru. It was discovered four years ago when the snow covering it melted, revealing the natural beauty of the rock beneath.
GArw5 TIL that librarians learned a specific penmanship called the "Library Hand." It does away with their individual writing styles to closely resemble typewriter output, where writing is uniform in size, width, slant, spacing, and form of letters.
rRpOM TIL of Corazon Aquino, the wife of a staunch political opponent against the dictator of the Philippines. Upon the assassination of her husband by the dictator, she ran for president against him, winning and restoring democracy to the Philippines.
m1EkE TIL "3 nm" or "5 nm" chips are meaningless marketing terms, just like "BMW i5"; these terms have nothing to do with any dimension that you can find on the die. For example, TSMC's 3 nm process has a gate pitch of 48 nm!