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TIL people all over the world are cementing USB hard drives into walls for offline p2p sharing

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1mmX TIL the California Roll was invented in Vancouver, Canada. The rice on the outside of the roll was because Vancouverites didn’t want to eat seaweed.
KYbPa TIL in a 2016 study, 72 incidents were reviewed of humpback whales interfering w/ orcas hunting mammals. 61 involved prey species other than humpbacks despite "no apparent benefit" for their intervention leading the authors to conclude that "interspecific altruism" could not be ruled out.
nWl5o TIL the astronauts from the 1st moon landing were quarantined with mice for two weeks. If the mice survived, the astronauts would be let out
9Y64Q TIL long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by giant mushrooms
xVP1D TIL of Sehmat Khan, a young Indian girl and spy who got married to a Pakistani Army Officer during the Indo-Pak war of 1971 to gain confidential information and ended up saving thousands of lives by providing information about a Naval attack.