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TIL the “I should buy a boat” cat is originally from Björk’s music video “Triumph Of A Heart”

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16Qkd TIL about the "Bell Island Boom." In 1978, a mysterious and extremely loud explosion occurred in Bell Island, Canada. The blast was audible from up to 100km away, and the energy released was so powerful that the Vela Satelites used by the US Govt to detect nuclear explosions, detected the event.
6ENo8 TIL a recent study showed that subjects preferred to give themselves electric shocks rather than occupy themselves with their own thoughts for 15 minutes. Most people seem to prefer to be doing something rather than nothing, even if that something is negative
GAXRj TIL Sloths can hold their breath up to 40-minutes underwater; Dolphins can hold it for only 20 minutes.
loZB7 TIL that Peru is Portuguese for turkey, meaning that there are two countries in the world called Turkey.
wLjx6 TIL anything obtained in space and brought back to earth is the legal property of whoever obtained it, and big tech/space companies are already trying to salvage asteroids, meteors, and comets for valuable elements