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TIL The metalloid Tellurium has a very strong garlic like smell.

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dDDar TIL SETI itself has maintained that "Contact (1997 film) is indescribably more accurate in its depiction of SETI than any Hollywood film in history."
ZpxQQ TIL that Koreans have had heated floor technology since at least 1,000 B.C.E.
d817j TIL that an astonishing amount of what we put in our recycling bins doesn't actually get recycled. Plastic being the worst offender with around 91% not actually being recycled.
Lk8pP TIL that Ireland has the oldest average age at first marriage of any country. The average Irish citizen gets married for the first time at age 35.
gMXVb TIL The wreck of Titanic's is disappearing at a rate that it's estimated to be completely gone in about 30 years. A microorganism called 'Halomonas titanicae' (also called the 'steel-munching bacteria') is slowly eating away the iron of the ships' wreck, causing its deterioration.