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TIL The Solar System is surrounded by colossal spherical shell of trillions of icy objects called the Oort Cloud

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W1GY TIL during the Tiananmen Square incident Chinese agents were tasked with spotting foreign journalists taking pictures from their hotel room windows. After determining their room number an entry team would batter down the door and try and seize any film.
wL0N1 TIL that Kenya introduced the strictest ban on plastic bags in the world.
loYxN TIL because Western music were so hard to come by in Soviet Russia, a counter culture known as the “stilyagi” began developing bootleg vinyl records from X-rays—also known as “bones”—that they would then sell on the black market. Getting caught with one resulted in 3-5 years in a hard labor camp.
P1AmZ TIL every major computer font - Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, etc. - is owned by one private equity firm
pYGy8 TIL that the CIA spent $20 million to train and modify a cat to be a spy only to have it get run over on its first mission.