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TIL that there's a lab on the International Space Station dedicated to freezing atoms to nearly Absolute Zero in order to study Bose-Einstein condensates, a fifth form of matter

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9ZBM TIL If you’re American and find bird shit on an uninhabited island, you can claim the entire island as part of the United States
9Y4eM TIL that out of the 50,000 workers that could have been in the world trade centre on September 11th 2001, only around 19,000 were there that day for two main reasons; because people were late taking their kids to the first day of school and voting at local polling station for the mayoral election
gmE9 TIL the longest interstate highway is I-90 from Boston to Seattle. It’s 3101.13 miles (4990.78 km) long.
9w5OX TIL the film "North" actually beat "Forrest Gump" in an awards show category ("Best Performance by a Youth Actor Co-Starring in a Motion Picture")
lomX7 TIL that it's possible that weather forecasting has been illegal in the UK until 1951. King Henry VIII outlawed foretelling the weather, since it was regarded as an act of foretelling the future, hence a witchcraft. The Witchcraft Acts which made whichcraft illegal was not repealed until 1951.