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TIL there’s and abandoned, unfinished town in Turkey with 732 Disney-style castle homes.

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DQKdD TIL The US National Solar Observatory requires a swimming pool’s worth of ice to be added each night into its tanks so coolant can be distributed through the observatory. The heat is intense enough to rapidly melt metal at the telescope mirror’s focal point
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