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TIL most people have heard of the International Space Station (ISS) but few people have ever heard of Aquarius, a permanent underwater lab off the cost of Florida.

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lA8K TIL Derreck Kayongo collected barely-used bars of soap from hotels, melted them together, and distributed them to poor countries. He’s the founder of the Global Soap Project, which improves access to basic sanitation and reduces disease and child mortality.
VPD TIL that due to exponential growth, if someone somehow folded a paper 50 times, it would reach the Sun.
KOmBB TIL Chile's Atacama Desert is among the very driest places on the planet, so arid that rain may not fall on it for decades or centuries at a time. This makes the hostile landscape about the closest thing we have to Mars on Earth – and scientists just made a big discovery about it.
KYXbR TIL In 2017, 10 of the 12 UK water firms admitted using divining rods to find leaks and pipes, despite there being numerous studies that show it is no more effective than chance
16pvV TIL that the phrase “time immemorial” (as used in English common law) refers to any time prior to July 6, 1189