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TIL of a farm in South Australia that is solar-powered and uses no fresh water. Opened in 2010, the world-first farm uses desalinated water and sunlight to produce around 15,000 tonnes of tomatoes a year.

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Y7Oe7 TIL a steamboat missing for 132 years was discovered 45 feet under a field a half-mile away from the river it sank in. Among the 200 tons of cargo recovered from the boat were bottles of liquor, ketchup, preserved fruits for pies, and bright green sweet pickles which were still edible.
0d7B5 TIL that one of the strategies proposed for raising the Titanic before it fully deteriorates was to fill it full of ping pong balls.
9YlVD TIL the angel Gabriel was a messenger to Daniel in Jewish scripture, to Mary in Christian scripture, to Muhammad in Muslim scripture, and to Joseph Smith in Mormon scripture.
0dM7j TIL I learned that in 2018 Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, ran an ad campaign branding itself as the "G-Spot of Europe" accompanied by the slogan "Nobody knows where it is, but when you get there - it's amazing."
GAPxQ TIL that the fastest time to solve three Rubik’s Cubes while juggling them is 4 minutes and 31.01 seconds, achieved by Que Jianyu of China in 2018.