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TIL Korea has had underfloor heating for thousands of years.

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N7oG8 TIL that lemurs are among the largest pollinators (in terms of their size, not their scale of pollination)
od1K TIL There’s a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
ep0Nk TIL there is a pond at the North Pole that came into existence in 2002. It is the northernmost pond in the world.
9wyQr TIL that on October 8, 1871, three of the most devastating fires in world history-the Great Chicago Fire (IL), the Peshtigo Fire(Wl), and the Great Michigan Fire(MI)-broke out simultaneously, causing massive destruction.
KO74R TIL there have been over 2000 cover versions of the song "Louie Louie". In the 80s some radio stations would play the song all weekend by a different artist each time.