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TIL that in 2009, the government of the Maldives held an underwater cabinet meeting in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels that threaten the country's existence

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0wNpN TIL Silicone oil leaches out of remote control buttons and gradually makes the controller less responsive
Vjvp TIL that ZZ Top guitarists Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, were once offered $1 million by Gillette to cut off their facial hair. They said “The prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film…a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.”
XErEE TIL that after Usain Bolt broke the 100 m world record at the 2009 Berlin World Championships, the mayor of Berlin awarded him a 12 foot long, 6000 pound piece of the Berlin Wall. Bolt accepted and it is now housed at the Jamaica Military Museum.
gM1r8 TIL We are closer to the date when The Jetsons is set (2062), than the original airing date of the series (1962)
PY50w TIL Wolfgang Engels, an East German soldier who had helped build the barbed-wire fences that initially separated the two Berlins, stole a tank and drove it through the wall itself. Despite getting caught in the barbed wire and shot twice, he managed to escape.