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BO0b TIL that QR codes have been popping up in cemeteries. When you scan a code on a gravestone, you can read an obituary and see photos of the deceased.
loZVG TIL the Nile river valley used to be a deep canyon system, up to 1.8 km deep where Cairo is today (the same depth as the Grand Canyon). It filled with sentiment 5 million years ago when the Mediterranean Sea refilled after a period of drying out.
4kM7N TIL of the Military-First Girls, a Japanese all-women fan club of the Moranbong Band, a North Korean girl group. In an interview the club's leader said: "Just like how there are women who like K-pop and Taylor Swift, we just love North Korean culture."
8epmV TIL, that because Mars father is Jupiter and Jupiters father is Saturn, Johann Bode proposed that the 7th planet should be named after Jupiters father. Bode was unaware of the fact that Uranus was the greek and not roman god. There are now 6 planets named after roman gods and 1 named after a greek.
kOrw4 TIL there is an island in the pacific called Yap that uses circular stones as currency. The stones are too large to move so the ownership of the stones is passed by word of mouth to transact business. The location of the stone is irrelevant even in the case of one lost on the bottom of the sea