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TIL it is possible to win Monopoly in 21 seconds
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TIL there’s a farm station in South Australia larger than Israel!
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TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.
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TIL Kars 4 Kids, invests less than half of their donations to Kids, and instead loses millions on failed real estate holdings and religious conversion day camps. They’re being investigated by the attorney general’s office in two states.
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TIL of Taro Tsujimoto, a fake hockey player drafted by the Buffalo Sabres. With a name inspiration coming from a local grocer, Tsujimoto was picked because the GM was frustrated by the length of the NHL draft. Outside the GM and the Director of communications, no one else knew the joke.
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Today I learned that Bolivia has one of the world's largest deposits of lithium, critical for production of lithium ion batteries.