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TIL there is a building in Dubai called the Torch that caught fire three times between 2015 and 2019.

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GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
PYVBe TIL that grey wolves and dogs share 99.9% of their DNA and can breed with each other.
wvoJ TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript wriitten by Archimedes that laid out the heart of calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.
YpJeZ TIL: Sweating is an efficient way to remove many heavy metals, so if you’ve been eating too much tuna, make sure to hit the sauna.
78gQZ TIL Elvis Presley's manager made money by selling "I Hate Elvis" badges to those who were not purchasing Elvis merchandise.