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TIL the Malaysian space agency convened a conference of 150 Islamic scientists to determine how a Muslim astronaut on the space station should pray facing Mecca

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J1Pa4 TIL that Nepal has a festival devoted entirely to celebrating dogs!
mxQNR TIL the US was sold Kazakhstan’s uranium supply through a diplomat’s car mechanic
mxAEY TIL of the land of brushes. Kumano city in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture is famous for producing handmade brushes that are used by Hollywood makeup artists among others. But it only specialized in brushmaking after farmers had to sell brushes to earn an income during the agricultural off season.
XoXP TIL Homosexual swans will have temporary threesomes with a female swan to obtain an egg, then they drive her away.
eO4n TIL that in Denmark, some teachers use Swedish names for numbers when introducing children to mathematics, because of the irregular structure of the Danish number system. For example, the Danish “71” is structured as “1 plus 3½ times 20”.