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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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Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
9Y0JD TIL Produce grows freakishly large in Alaska...like, freakishly large.
0dpEy TIL about Ken Warby, the fastest man on water. He set the speed record in his homemade, wood boat in 1978 at 317.6mph (551.1 km/h), a record that still stands today.
kO6k4 TIL In 1950, medical knowledge was estimated to double every 50 years. By 2020, it is expected to double every 73 days.
b66la TIL Alexander Fleming's mold that produced the first antibiotic, penicillin, was kept frozen since 1945 and its genomes are used for regrowing nowadays