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TIL that Earth once had rings like Saturn.

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Vvpk TIL that soap operas have their distinct look due to their significant restrained budgets, leading to cost-saving lighting methodologies and video storage formats (including VHS tapes)
GALvE TIL in 2018 three illegally installed vending machines (that required an 8-inch hole to be dug & filled with concrete) were discovered in Long Island to be selling "crack pipes" disguised as pens for $2 each. The machines were originally tampon dispensers that had been ripped out of bathrooms.
MnQ8 TIL : The groove in a sword (the fuller) is not to let blood flow easier and ease the extraction of the blade. It is simply to lighten the blade in a way that won’t affect its strength.
Rnn1 TIL Russia has a Tomb of the Unknown Dog as a memorial for canine research subjects.
KO9M6 TIL the reason Phoenix can exist in the middle of the desert is because in 1868 Jack Swilling discovered the ruins of a 27,000 sqmi canal system built by the Hohokam. He restarted the canals and today that infrastructure, with modern expansions, waters the city of over a million in the hot desert.