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TIL that Democratic Republic of the Congo is considered THE richest country in the world regarding natural resources even though its citizens are among the poorest.

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mprv TIL: CSPAN was created by the cable companies in 1979 as a free public service for all. Anyone could watch live our Congress doing their jobs. Now? C-SPAN requires verification of a cable or satellite subscription but hopes someday they can be free to the general public again.
dDW68 TIL for more than 1000 miles of the Trans-Australian Railway there no natural water sources. When the line was first built in 1907 half of a trains load had to be water for the steam engines.
adaZ TIL that the speeding up mechanism in Space Invaders was actually unintentional - the processor was just ‘more efficient when there were fewer objects on screen’
YpNRP TIL that the Mississippi river was once five miles wide and whales swam up it from the gulf of Mexico. The remains of these whales have been found in Michigan.
7rjnp TIL of Alexander Yuvochenko, a survivor of the Chernobyl disaster. Most will recognize him as the man who holds the reactor door open in Episode 1 of the HBO show. Many assumed he had died, but he in fact survived his exposure to the radiation, living for another 22 years after the accident.