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TIL in 1986 Glasgow showed support to Nelson Mandela by re-naming a street after him; the street the South African consulate was on

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rNM54 TIL that atomic clocks are so precise that the most accurate ones won't lose a second for over 30 billion years — longer than the age of the universe.
Y7prP TIL more soldiers were executed during the civil war than all other American wars combined. Two-thirds of them were for desertion.
BrY1y TIL about Nábrók, or "necropants." According to Icelandic witchcraft, these are pants made of human skin that produce an endless supply of money.
R7GDQ TIL Nyepi, a hindu festival, celebrated in Bali is a national self reflection day which is observed by silence. Surprisingly, tourists are not permitted onto the beaches or streets. telecommunications companies even switch off internet services for a 24 hour period. Airport are closed too.
xe7o TIL last year we found 1,458 new species of bacteria living in the bellybutton, everyone’s bellybutton ecology is unique like a fingerprint, and one volunteer’s belly button harbored bacteria that had previously been found only in soil from Japan, where he had never been.