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TIL Australia is "wider" than the Earth's Moon, but not "bigger" than it

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Z8a4R TIL: There is a fully intact Roman wine bottle sitting in Germany from the year 350 AD. It's fully drinkable but the Romans added a significant amount of thick olive oil as a preservative.
xVA0b TIL: Police in the UK apologised for using sirens, whilst trying to determine if they went "woo-woo" or "nee-nah".
aawy TIL of the Atmos clock, a mechanical torsion pendulum clock which gets the energy it needs to run from temperature and air pressure changes in the environment, and can run for many years without human intervention. A temperature variation of only 1 degree is sufficient for two days operation.
OYae TIL Bayer produces harmful chemicals which may be a huge factor in Colon Collapse Disorder in bees.
Qr79 TIL that a blue moon means the second full moon in a month and the first one in over two years is happening next Friday.