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TIL There has not been a year in the last 14 years when Mr. Brightside by the Killers was not in the UK top 100 chart and at 189 weeks, it holds the record for the most weeks in the top 100

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Wxv4 TIL Between 213-210BC in Ancient China, Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi buried scholars alive (and burned books) in order to unify all thoughts and political opinions and to suppress intellectual discourse.
mx9Do TIL that the US stores apples in a process called Controlled Atmosphere. These are storage rooms that control the temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and humidity levels to put apples in hibernation which “puts them in suspended animation”. This is why we can have apples that taste good year round.
ney5d TIL about the Wolbachia bacteria, which can only be transmitted by females, so eliminates males by killing them or turning them female, and enables host females to reproduce without males
QJK8X TIL that Arkansas and Kansas are derived from similarly named Native American tribes, but Arkansas took the French spelling while Kansas used the English spelling. The "s" at the end of French words is usually silent. This is why the two almost identical words are pronounced differently.
R7Rla TIL that in 2012 a German civil, in an email announcing his retirement to his colleagues, admitted that he had done zero work for the last 14 years