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TIL that Vatican state owns a observatory telescope in south-west Arizona

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4kKaR TIL that the Rose of Versailles Helped Inspire Sailor Moon
nX4B TIL the first product SONY came out with was a rice cooker
pY7NO TIL about Leon Whiteley, a 26-year-old British man who cycled eastward from Portugal to China. 176 days in, at a teahouse in Kazakhstan, he met Noel Kegel -- an 27-year-old American man who was making a similar journey west
xVWOw TIL Olympic swimming pools must be sprayed with water during diving. It’s a safety feature called mechanical surface agitation and it allows diver to determine when they should enter their rotation.
NoMP TIL in 1965 a young American tourist illegally crossed the Norwegian-Soviet border, walked up to a Soviet border post and demanded the guards stamp his passport. He was arrested, sentenced to a detention camp and died on the train there.