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TIL: Australia is wider than the moon.

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5VlAn TIL the United States has purchased thousands of weapons’ worth of uranium from decommissioned Soviet nuclear weapons. It is estimated that one in ten lightbulbs in the US are powered by nuclear fuel removed from weapons formerly pointed at the US and its allies.
jQXn TIL: Six months after building a $680,000 custom house with an ocean view, the homeowners found out it was built on the wrong lot.
JYoG1 TIL parrots' utterances can be used in criminal court proceedings.
w008 TIL That September 11 is also remembered in Germany. In 1944, the city of Darmstadt was “terror bombed,” leaving 12.3k dead and over half the city of 110k homeless.
pDAe TIL that Confederate Soldiers are not considered American Veterans