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TIL mawsynram in meghalaya, india is the wettest inhabited place on earth, with average annual rainfall over 11,871 millimeters (467.4 inches)

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6n5m TIL that a Pillbug (Wood louce) isn’t an insect… but they are crustaceans. They are closer to a crab than a bug.
69maQ TIL about Wing Commander Clive Beadon, British dowser, diplomat, and officer in the Royal Air Force. During WW2 his aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft guns over Thailand. He managed to fly the burning aircraft over 500 miles back to an airbase in India using flasks of tea to keep the flames at bay.
M7ANK TIL that the Sahara is roughly the same size as China or the USA
kXLB TIL that a town in Italy banned people from keeping goldfish in bowls, because the structure of the bowl “distorts the goldfish’s view of reality”
0AKL TIL there is evidence of Methane based life on Titan, a moon of Saturn.