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TIL Asia has a larger surface area than the moon

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OGnY TIL that in the 1960s Goodyear Tire manufactured illuminated tires in different colors.
LQVQ0 TIL - One of the poorest countries at independence in 1966, Botswana rapidly became a development success story. Diamonds, good governance, prudent economic management, and a rather small population have made it into an upper middle income country, with one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
loAYA TIL about singer and pioneer sound recording artist George W. Johnson, born in 1846, who sold more than 25.000 wax cylinders. Since every recording was a "master" back then, he would record the same song over and over with several recording devices pointed at him, sometimes fifty or more times a day
kOpyg TIL At theoutbreak of the Second World War, zookeepers killed all the poisonous insects and snakes in London Zoo, in case it was bombed and they escaped
e0AYL TIL: A man named Robert Shields wrote the longest diary in history - 37.5 million words written over a 25 year period until he was disabled by a stroke. He spent hours every day chronically the most minute details of his daily life and even limited sleep to 2 hours at a time to record his dreams.