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TIL Each year since 1917, thousands of Alaskans have placed bets on when a black and white tripod will fall through the ice on the Nenana River, signaling breakup and the arrival of spring.

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wLLN8 Around 90% of world trade is carried by the international shipping industry. There are over 50,000 merchant ships trading internationally, transporting every kind of cargo. The world fleet is registered in over 150 nations and manned by over a million seafarers of virtually every nationality.
QNvVL TIL that why most shopping malls have this kind of air door that blast you with high velocity air flow when you enter. It is actually called an air door or air curtain that is used to prevent air, contaminants, flying insects from moving from one open space to another and keep the temp maintained.
nWBdr TIL paleontologist Xu Xing has named more new species of dinosaur than any other living person and is one of the most prolific paleontologists to ever live. He's described so many new species that he's actually lost track of how many; he estimates the number is somewhere around 80.
BrdZW TIL that the US has technically been a metric nation since 1975 but just hasn't enforced the system onto private companies and people.
wgJM TIL there’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or 'festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like.