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TIL 70% of Saudi Arabias electrical consumption is used exclusively for air conditioning

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jN9Ov TIL "This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours" - Is the message NASA launched as a record into space in 1977 attached to Voyager 1.
J8xj TIL that the ‘Cinnamon Challenge’ can result in a collapsed lung
gEQA TIL of Starfish. A 60’s US military experiment designed to see what would happen when a nuke was detonated 250 miles above Earth’s magnetic pole. It resulted in an EMP 900 miles wide, an intense artificial aurora, and a radiation belt that disabled 1/3 of the low orbit satellites and lasted 5 years.
E1QZX TIL Jesus is referenced in the Quran, directly or indirectly, 187 times. Making him the most referenced person in the Quran.
grjXy TIL the New Holland mouse is a non-marsupial mammal native to Australia. After it was first described by Europeans, it wasn't seen again for over 100 years