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TIL that a massive 1km^3 particle detector sits under the South pole.

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wen6 TIL there is country that ranks lower than North Korea in the Press Freedom Index, which measures how much freedom journalists have. Eritrea surpassed North Korea as the bottom spot in 2007 and has held it since.
yGNV TIL the Statue of Liberty didn’t turn completely green until 1906
kOdr5 TIL about the MIT developed camera that uses terahertz radiation to read closed books. A fascinating breakthrough that could mean reading dated and delicate documents such as historic manuscripts without touching or opening them.
nW46B TIL Noah S. Sweat was a Mississippi congressman known for a 1952 speech that took him over two months to write, in which he proudly stood on both sides of prohibition. This became known as the "If-By-Whisky" fallacy.
X07GR TIL: In 2011, a Florida senator tried to bring back dwarf tossing, which was made illegal decades prior, arguing that "In this economy, why would we want people from getting gainful employment". In 1989, dwarf tossing was made illegal after one dwarf died of alcohol poisoning.