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TIL Farting while wearing clothing in a sterile environment will not compromise the sterility of said environment

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6ELyw TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.
VvwB TIL that in Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks spoke in high-speed Tibetan.
e0Q8J TIL that since dolphins breathe manually, they cannot enter 'deep sleep' like humans. Therefore, dolphins only allow one half of their brains to sleep at a time, and never lose consciousness.
yeQl TIL that In The Russian Version Of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionare’, The Audience Intentionally Gave Out Wrong answers To Make The Player Lose
R7NbQ TIL that the myth of the changeling - of faeries replacing a stolen human child with their own - could have been born as an explanation of autistic children. Many traits associated with faeries, such as obsessive counting, are also known in the autism spectrum.