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TIL New York City plans to turn all of it’s old phone booths into wifi hot spots.

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OG4P1 TIL Post Malone & Swae Lee’s ‘Sunflower’ song from the 2018 animated movie “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” became the first ever single to be certified as double diamond or 20x platinum in the US. On top of that, Post Malone has also the most diamond certified singles in RIAA history.
n8yr TIL Koalas sometimes hug trees to stay cool, because some tree species can be over 5 degrees cooler than the air during hot weather
KP0J TIL cats “directly register”, meaning that while walking, their back paws land in the same spot as their front paws, which minimizes noise and visible tracks.
16J1D TIL that in 1968 Bob Beamon broke the world record for the long jump by nearly 2 feet. His jump exceeded the limits of the measuring equipment that had been installed and his jump had to be measured manually.
0wgPj TIL that in 1944, the British hatched a plan to assassinate Hitler – Operation Foxley. Many, including Churchill approved of the plan. It never went through though because Hitler was an awful military strategist, and there was fear that whoever replaced him would be more adept at winning the war.