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TIL the Bush administration paid the Taliban $43mil months before 9/11…

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vd54 TIL that men get piss all over everything because of Plateau-Rayleigh instability - not necessarily because our aim is off
OG7je TIL Japan's exclusive ocean is 12 times its land area, including Okinotori islet, 6.3 inch above sea level
P1OdO TIL Kenny G's recording "Going Home" is a mega-hit in China, played at the end of TV broadcasts and during the closing of shopping malls, food courts, and train stations to symbolize finishing one's activity and wrapping up for the day.
EgP9x TIL: More People Have Walked on the Moon Than Have Captured the Analemma (Position of the sun at a fixed place for a year)
J1R51 TIL Yokozuna was not Japanese but Samoan