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TIL humans invented booze before the wheel.

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rNM54 TIL that atomic clocks are so precise that the most accurate ones won't lose a second for over 30 billion years — longer than the age of the universe.
OKag TIL that Bratislava Airport is within an hour’s drive of Vienna (Austria), Brno (Czech Republic), Győr (Hungary), and of course Bratislava (Slovakia), making it the only airport to serve four countries
R5yQ TIL that in Japan there’s a series of Melody Roads with grooves that, when driven over, play the song “Memories of Summer” through the vibrations in the car.
MDvK TIL US government did not spend millions developing Space Pen while Russians used pencils. US also used pencils.
RVQ7 TIL that when Nazis came to a Jewish Nobel Laureate’s home, a fellow chemist hid his (and another laureate’s) gold medals by dissolving them in a beaker that the Nazis ignored, then years later he recovered the gold and had it recast back into the medals.