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TIL Microsoft sank a data centre to investigate if it could boost energy efficiency. It could sit on the sea floor for up to five years.

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XE1WQ TIL that SETI scientists believed that the chances for finding intelligent extraterrestrial life were far greater than initially expected, since Earth developed two intelligent species - humans, and dolphins.
LkVxp TIL During WWII, thousands of women were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army. Japan still refused to formally apologize to these women, who are now in their 80s and 90s.
WkZlY TIL Spacex offered all the residents of Boca Chica, Texas a buyout so they could increase the size of rockets being launched in their municipality.
D1kGD TIL that the public transportation in Zanzibar (an autonomous region of Tanzania) is called "Daladala". During the 1970s and 1980s, public transport cost a Dollar to travel to the nearest town. Travelling to town cost a Dollar ("Dala") and returning cost a Dollar, hence the term "Daladala"
KREG TIL The South African health ministry once stapled a leaflet to condoms they distributed