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TIL that 80% of Australian homes are colder than is recommended by the WHO safety standards for indoor air temperature.

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6EBvX TIL that Iron Giant book ends with the Iron Giant defeating a "Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon" the size of Australia in a contest of pain endurance. The Iron Giant then commands the alien monster to bring peace to humanity by flying around the Earth singing the "music of the spheres".
EgkXd TIL The World’s Most Inconvenient Convenience Store Hangs 393 Feet Off the Side of a Cliff Located in China’s Shiniuzhai National Geological Park.
D1yr TIL there was an epidemic of Satanic ritual abuse across America in the 1980s that turned out to be completely imagined. People were recalling memories of sexual abuse and cannibalism that never occurred.
5V87Q TIL about Old Tom (1860-1930); an Orca who partnered with humans to hunt whales for over three decades.
Y7nmA TIL The US military once accidentally killed over 6,000 sheep with nerve gas when a weapons test went wrong