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TIL there was a blizzard in Iran in 1972 so deadly that some villages had no survivors. Snow got as high as 26 feet.

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L5Dr TIL in 1948, the United States signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of being in the UN. Article 12 says “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy…or correspondence. Everyone has the right to the protection…against such interference or attacks.”
R5LOQ TIL that there was a prequel comic series to the film Wall-E. It ran for 8 issues from 2009-2010 but was discontinued.
Dnnp TIL Cats sleep 70% of their lifetime. we humans only sleep 30%
1v6W TIL that Buddhists have been selecting monks to study science in order to create a curriculum including science education. This will be the first change in Tibetan monastery and scholastic curriculum in 600 years.
9wYD6 TIL English trip-hop band Massive Attack encoded the digital audio files of their album "Mezzanine" into 920,000 short DNA strands