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TIL that the Tsaatan people of northern Mongolia are one of the last remaining nomadic reindeer herding cultures, living in harmony with their reindeer in the taiga forests.

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W76jd TIL Schrödinger didn't come up with the idea of the cat in a box to promote the idea of dead-and-live cats as a serious possibility, but as an illustration of the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics
dDwx8 TIL "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X was co-written by Trent Reznor
m11rp TIL the ISS is only weightless because it's in orbit (therefore constantly falling) not because of its distance from the earth. An airplane at the same altitude, under its own power would have 89% as much gravity as the earth's surface.
gMYgX TIL that Guinness World Records accepts payments (ranging from $12,000 to $500,000) from individuals, organizations and governments to either find a record that they could break or to create an entirely new record category
O5VR TIL a young Charlie Wilson’s dog was killed by a next door neighbor who was running for city council by mixing crushed glass into the dog’s food. Charlie Wilson retaliated by driving 96 poor black voters to the polls ultimately causing his neighbor to lose the election.