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TIL that in 13th century China, Zhao Rukuo wrote a book named Zhu Fan Zhi, which provided details of different cultures the Chinese traded with, from nearby Asian lands up to Sicily

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d8XxB TIL that a group of up to 30 bears surrounded and attacked a remote Russian platinum mine in 2008, killing two security guards and trapping 400 people there
rQ0x TIL The number one soft drink in Scotland isn’t Coke or Pepsi, its Irn-Bru. A company known for controversial ads, such as a mother singing about how she used to be a man, and another ad where a woman says she’d never gotten so much pleasure from 4 and a half inches before.
bYDQ TIL that in 2006, a man escaped from a US federal prison by mailing himself out
XX4E TIL to find interstellar life, one of the things astronomers look out for is a Dyson Sphere, a power plant which harnesses the power of its solar system’s sun by surrounding it with solar panels. It is theorized to be a logical necessity for a spacefaring civilization to sustain intergalactic travel
OGMyR TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf observed sunspots through a telescope for 46 years from 1847 and managed to reconstruct historical records back to 1610. His sunspot number monitoring work continued at the Zürich Observatory until 1979