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TIL About a cafe full of manji or swastikas
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TIL that Owls actually have long legs and small body that is almost the same size as their Skull.
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TIL the Italian city of Bologna had 180 towers by AD 1200. The tallest, at 320 ft (97 meters) high, still stands and was completed in AD 1119.
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TIL that a clean room used in chip manufacturing is thousands of times cleaner than a operating room. Chip manufacturing clean rooms have 10 particles per cubic meter while ORs allow 10,000 particles per cubic meter.
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TIL thieves stole a radiotherapy unit from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap. The caesium unit was opened and admired for its mysterious blue glow. Hundreds fell ill and 4 people died of radiation poisoning.
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TIL that there are only 88 recognized constellations and it has been that way since 1928.