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TIL that Tuvalu announced plans as the first country in the world to build a digital replica in the metaverse to preserve its cultural heritage.

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6ml7 TIL that there is a hardcore full contact style of Karate called “Kyokushin” which means “The Ultimate Truth” in Japanese where students fight barehanded and have to fight 100 people in a row in order to get a black belt.
8axKb TIL the tall cone-shaped “princess hat” is called a hennin. They originated with the warrior queens of Mongolia and became fashionable in Europe after Marco Polo brought one back from his travels.
bLkj TIL you have a 76.6% chance of surviving a plane crash even when you narrow down the stats to the worst accidents. If you include all accidents you have a 95.7% of surviving.
e0Zk TIL According to University of California, the world’s servers processed 9.87 Zettabytes of information in a single year. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000 GigaBytes!
9YVmX TIL The Warwolf, is believed to be the largest trebuchet ever made. It was created in Scotland by order of King Edward I of England, during the siege of Stirling Castle, as part of the Scottish Wars of Independence.