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TIL that Songdo City in S. Korea uses pneumatic tubes in all apartments to transport waste to a central disposal center

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bXda TIL the US military has an extensive plan on how to handle a zombie apocalypse.
D6EP TIL the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland once used real skeletons taken from UCLA’s Medical Center. Rumors still persist that a few of them still remains in the attraction.
x6nK1 TIL Digimon is owned by Bandai, developer of famous brands such as Power Rangers, Pac-Man, Tamagotchi. Bandai was unhappy with how Tamagotchi was performing with young boys, so it put a team on making a version that boys would like. The answer was to make them fight...the core concept of Digimon!
4XybJ TIL that in 2020 it's been 22 years since That 70's Show first aired in 1998 which took place in 1976 which was 22 years before 1998.
DJwY TIL that Saudi Arabia has no minimum age of consent and that Clerics have fought efforts to create one. A judge refused to annul a marriage between an 8 year old girl and a 47 year old man.