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TIL Burj Khalifa isn’t hooked up to a municipal wastewater treatment system – so when you poop in the building, that waste is actually trucked out of the city.

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Y8Gx TIL Fanny Cochrane Smith was the last fluent Tasmanian speaker; she also recorded the only known audio recordings of Tasmanian music, which you can hear on Wikipedia.
aydA TIL That for every dollar spent on NASA there is an average 7 to 14 dollar ROI for other economies and industries due to innovations
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