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Today I learned pizza isn't Italian

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XxWk TIL that Google will award $30M to the first privately funded teams to successfully 1) land a robot on the Moon, 2) navigate it for more than 500m on its surface, and 3) transmit back high-def videos and images of the feat. Countries like Brazil, Chile, India, Hungary have joined the competition.
x6joo TIL that whisky company Diageo puts aside barrels of maturing whiskey for its pension plan
NXB7J TIL in 2019, the UK granted asylum to a 14-year-old boy and admitted him to a local high school. He was asking 14yo girls out and changing with 14yo boys in PE. It later turned out he was actually an adult who was wanted for murder in Serbia.
yQlAJ TIL smoking is more likely to cause bladder cancer than lung cancer and that is due to all toxins ending up down there before being flushed down the toilet.
LxBp TIL that by 2012 the players of World of Warcraft had collectively spent about 6 million years worth of time playing the game, about as much time as humanity has spent evolving as a species