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TIL that the construction the Three Gorges Dam in China displaced enough water to lengthen the earth's day by 0.06 μs.

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4wR TIL: That for 3 weeks after 911, the most searched for phrase on Google was ‘Nostradamus’
Verp TIL that 91,4 % of 9/11 survivors put off evacuation to shut down Computers or to go to the bathroom before evacuating.
nWlyP Today I learned McDonald's french fries supposedly tasted better prior to 1990. That is when McDonald's stopped using beef fat and began using vegetable oil with beef seasoning(making the fried not vegan or vegetarian).
LMm TIL that unicorns are mentioned in the bible in more than a few versus.
64jZ TIL after X-raying a prayer book from the 13th century scientists discovered the pages had readable traces of an unknown work by Archimedes. The remarkable work book contained treatises on infinity written 2,000 years before anyone else thought up the concept.