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TIL: Scientists May Have Evidence We Are In A Matrix-Like Simulation.

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nWnP7 TIL that Djibouti, a small country with less than a million people, hosts military bases from the US, China, Japan, France and Italy. Due to its strategic position at the mouth of the Red Sea, leases from foreign military bases make up 5% of its economy.
raBx TIL A guy in Arizona wrote his address on $1 bills pleading they be sent back to him & gets them back from all over the world, up to $94/month.
ElAW TIL: St. Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution. He joked with his tormentors, “Turn me over—I’m done on this side”. He is now the patron saint of cooks, comedians, and firefighters.
pYyr8 TIL that the actual reason that toilets have a half flush and full flush is because half is for only for liquids and full is for solids. Never realised that until now.
y99a TIL a Russian mathematician solved a 100 year old math problem; he declined the Fields medal, $1 million in awards, and later retired from math because he hated the recognition the math community gives to people who prove things.