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TIL that it would take less than a year for the average person to walk around the earth.

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R5b1w TIL that NASA sent up 2k jellyfish to space in the 90s that multiplied itself and at some pt, there were 60k jellyfish in the space!
GJZN TIL that 14 of the poorest African countries are forced by France, through a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank.They are effectively putting in 500 Billion dollars every year to the French treasury.
grjML TIL that phosphorus was the first new element to be discovered since ancient times. In 1669, a German alchemist tried boiling and condensing urine in order to make the fabled philosopher’s stone. Instead, he discovered a substance that glowed in the dark and named it “phosphorus mirabilis.”
NXBG8 TIL about the Melanesian “cargo cults” - an indigenous group who superstitiously recreated Allied / Japanese military equipment, clothes, and routines in the hopes that it would bring back more of the resources they saw delivered to bases on nearby islands during WWII.
4QG6 TIL After a hospital error, two pairs of identical twins were raised in separate families as two pairs of fraternal twins. They found each other 25 years later.