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TIL that a National Geographic photographer shipped 15 tons of equipment to Siberian lake for a single story. Six pictures were used.

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Ypw7r TIL that firefighters once rushed to a house in Daventry when its smoke alarm went off repeatedly, only to discover that it was actually a parrot who had learned to perfectly imitate its sound.
V90G TIL some dog breeds experience “snow nose,” a phenomenon that causes dogs to lose pigmentation in their nose during winter due to lack of sunlight. It usually returns to black during summer.
BJWL TIL the USA has provided nuclear weapons for Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey to deploy and store but they cannot arm the bombs without authorization codes from the US Air Force.
ZY9D TIL that until 1974, banks could (and usually would) refuse to issue a credit card to a woman unless she was married and her husband co-signed for the card. A divorced woman was considered too much of a risk because she “couldn’t keep a marriage under control.”
lLrK TIL building a time machine is believed to be scientifically possible but requires building a gigantic particle accelerator in space, stabilizing space-time foam, plucking out a wormhole, enlarging it and connecting it a gravitational field.