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TIL Iran is home to the largest population of Jews in the Middle East outside Israel.

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AN6gx TIL that there are a number of models to predict gravity at specific points on Earth, but due to peaks, valleys and the equivalent of rocks, sand, water and feathers (maybe not the last one) inside this big ball, there are a number of ♦gravity anomalies♦
5bPp TIL The people of Shitterton, UK, banded together to buy a big rock to put the name on. As people kept stealing the sign.
P1NvJ TIL Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann was the most prolific flying ace ever, shooting down 352 Allied planes during WWII. He had to crash land 16 times due to equipment failure or shrapnel from his own kills, but never once because of enemy fire.
edVL TIL:When railway tycoon George Pullman died in 1897, his family was so afraid that his corpse would be desecrated by employees, they buried him at night in a pit 8 feet deep, encased in floors and walls of steel-reinforced concrete in a lead-lined casket covered in layers of asphalt and steel rails.
b9r04 TIL that lightning is created by water droplets and ice crystals bumping together in a could causing static electricity and then released from the cloud in the form of lightning. I am 30 years old and apparently didn't listen at school.