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TIL that some of the lunar craters that have a brighter appearance than the surface of the moon, are those having an inner wall with a relatively high albedo.

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GAQX1 TIL that the least obese country in the world is Vietnam. Its obesity rates stands at only 2.1%, which is lower than Uganda (5.3%), and significantly lower than the U.S. (41.9%)
ZdRR TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”
v1wwj TIL the Lo-Fi girl video was a livestream, and that it had been running for 1.5 years before the channel got suspended in error, creating the longest running YT video
6KOZ TIL In 2003, a panel of prominent US experts decried Americans’ ignorance of outside world and argued that Americans’ reluctance to study foreign civilizations could eventually become a threat to national security.
eXJL TIL Tigers, and only tigers, hunt adult bears