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TIL in Zagreb, Croatia there is replication of all 9 planets (at the time) sizes and distances in the same scale as Sun. In 2004. there was a scavenger hunt to find them beacuse the locations were unknown

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AN1Ed TIL about the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act passed in 1998 which contained the Faircloth Amendment that capped the construction of new public housing units in USA. The act created the Section 8 voucher program used today.
j6OxE TIL about the Chinese use of “oracle bones”, in which questions about the future into the bones of oxen or turtles. The bones are then heated, which caused cracks to appear on them. These cracks were then interpreted in various ways in order to predict the future.
0dRp1 TIL in 1999, financial analyst Harry Markopolos had informed the SEC that he believed it was legally and mathematically impossible to achieve the gains Bernie Madoff claimed. It took four minutes to conclude that his numbers did not add up, and another minute to suspect they were fraudulent.
awd0Z TIL about the Bangui magnetic anomaly which is a dip in the Earth's magnetic field in the Central African Republic - a grievously poor country in the middle of Africa. The anomaly may have been caused by an ancient meteorite impact...
P159V TIL that the best time to take a nap is 7-8 hours after waking up, typically in the early to mid-afternoon depending on your wake-up time, and it should last 20-45 minutes to avoid sleep onset issues. If you need a longer nap to catch up on sleep debt, it’s better to take it earlier