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TIL in Lebanon the President must be a Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shi'a

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0wOBL TIL about Memory of Mankind, a sophisticated time capsule project in Austria designed to last a million years. The designers made a system for the capsule to be discovered by a future society and even planned for the possibility of it being discovered by alien life.
rRG6d TIL the most successful and feared allied spy of WWII, Virginia Hall, was an American woman with a prosthetic leg. She escaped France on foot through the Pyrenees mts, re-entered before D Day, and organized havoc behind the Nazi lines.
PJjO TIL All navel oranges originate from a single mutant tree that was planted 200 years ago. All trees that produce navel oranges were grown from cuts of the tree or mutated using grafts from the mutant tree.
mxerx TIL: The thin skin of soil that covers much of our planet's land stores more amounts of carbon than in all plants and the atmosphere combined
VMpwp TIL: Avatar (2009 Film) required 4,000 servers, 35,000 CPU Cores, 104 TB of RAM, and 3 PB of Network Area Storage in a 10,000 sq ft farm to render the movies effects