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TIL All glass in Sweden is recycled in one building.
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TIL in 2003 two Australian teens spent 22 hours in a tree above rising floodwaters after a crocodile killed their friend and showed off his body to them. The 13-foot crocodile then stalked them in their tree all night and most of the morning they were stuck there, before being rescued by helicopter.
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TIL while recording “I’m Coming Out,” Diana Ross had no idea “coming out” meant one revealing they’re gay. When Ross found out, she went back to the recording studio in tears, thinking songwriter Nile Rodgers tried to ruin her career.
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TIL Elon Musk chose to attend Queen’s University instead of University of Waterloo (Canada’s leading engineering university) because “there were girls [in Queen’s]”
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TIL the difference between disc and disk. Disc refers to optical media(Blu-ray, CD, DVD, etc), and disk refers to magnetic media(floppy disk, hard disk, etc).
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TIL that in Ireland 40 years ago, Malcolm MacArthur, a socialite with a yen for bow ties and cravats, bludgeoned a woman to death, killed a farmer with his own shotgun then attempted to rob a US diplomat. He was found in the apartment of the Irish attorney general, who had hosted him as a guest.