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TIL that Japan is making all of its medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics out of discarded electronics

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v1xBL TIL Africa has two capitals that mean the same thing in different languages: Libreville (Gabon) and Freetown (Sierra Leone)
wERM TIL Aircraft black boxes are designed to be able to withstand the pressure of being a mile underwater for up to 30 days. In the case of the Airbus box on Air France 447 it spent over 2 ½ years at over 3 miles deep and was still able to determine the cause of the accident.
XEJg6 TIL there is a secret, invite only, club inside Disneyland called Club 33
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R7Zll TIL Donald Duck is an extremely popular pop-icon in Germany, where you can buy his comics at most newsstands. In their version, Donald uses a highly sophisticated level of language and "many Germans credit him with having initiated them into the language of the literary classics".