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TIL the slogan for Kazakhstan's tourism board is "Very nice!"

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rmW0 TIL that on this day 60 years ago, Francis Crick walked into a pub and announced that he and James Watson had “found the secret of life”. Happy discovery birthday DNA!
e0wML TIL Pepsi's biggest demographic is 65 years old and over, while politically soda brands are split with Republicans preferring Coke and Democrats preferring Pepsi
ELvX TIL in 2015, Spanish workers destroyed a 6,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, mistaking it for a broken picnic table. They replaced it with a ‘better’ picnic table
V1eG TIL Michigan’s state motto is “Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice”: “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.”
b9oop TIL that not all torpedoes are designed to pierce hulls then explode, some detonate below the target ship without making contact. This creates a gas bubble that causes the ship to be thrust out of the water then dropped back into the resulting void, often breaking the vessel in half and sinking it.