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TIL Earth’s mantle holds several oceans worth of water.
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TIL a robot named HitchBot successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but got decapitated while hitchhiking across the US
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TIL: Concerned about the censorship of human genitalia on extraterrestrial messages, one MIT researcher recorded & transmitted the sound of a ballerina’s vagina contracting. The transmission was intercepted & cut off by the US Air Force but parts of it managed to reach two stars in 1996 & 1998.
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TIL that while millions of North Koreans starve, the nation’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown DAILY from China to Pyongyang (on North Korea’s national airline).
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TIL Switzerland has no official capital city
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TIL the fade-out was rare in early music. One of the earliest examples is Haydn's No. 45 symphony (1772) where each musician exited, extinguishing their candle as they left. Gradually only two muted violins remained.