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TIL: Saturn's north pole is a hexagon

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R0ww TIL a Sea Organ in Croatia continuously plays music powered by waves that flow through tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps
pJ5Q TIL that the hook on the end of a tape measure is intentionally loose. The distance it moves is equal to the thickness of the hook, to take into account the difference between hooking the end over an edge and pressing it against an object.
oQPL TIL in 1512, a horribly deformed baby was born in the city of Ravenna, and then was starved to death by order of the Pope
KOy56 TIL after Warren Harding’s Teapot Dome scandal the House and Senate were given subpoena power for review of tax records of any US citizen without regard to elected or appointed position, nor subject to White House interference.
woPrJ TIL New York City is owed over $1 billion in unpaid parking tickets and speeding fines