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TIL giant ice structures were discovered under the ice sheet in Greenland

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9YkmB TIL elevators in Singapore are equipped with urine detecting devices. If urine odour is detected, the elevator would automatically be locked and the police would be called to arrest the perpetrator.
GAVoG TIL a Chinese actor was cancelled in 2021 after the background of one of his photos taken in 2018 was identified as the office area of the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines Japanese war criminals
Z8bkY TIL astronauts typically spend a week in quarantine before any space mission, in order to prevent themselves from giving any possible illnesses to the rest of their crew
p85AA TIL the "peace sign" people often do in their foreheads for selfies means "stupid" in the ASL
jdZN TIL that a white mailman was murdered in Mississippi in 1963 while walking to the governor’s mansion to deliver a letter condemning segregation.