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TIL there's a province called Batman in Turkey

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w80o TIL There are roads in Estonia where it is illegal to wear a seatbelt
epV1L TIL that According to NASA Space Place, we are all time travelers because we travel one year in time between birthdays and we are all traveling in time at approximately the same speed: 1 second per second. We typically experience time at one second per second
16KOP TIL that when a celebratory dinner in honour of recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. did not garner enough support in his native Atlanta, J. Paul Austin, CEO of Coca-Cola, threatened to pull his business out of the city - within two hours of this announcement tickets were sold out.
vOMj TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” lists V. Ford as the songwriter so that the royalty checks could be used to run a soup kitchen.
ADkYn TIL even though physicists have confirmed every prediction made by the general relativity and quantum theories, they are mutually incompatible for very small or very massive objects. Therefore a framework revealing a deeper underlying reality must be discovered in order to unify the two theories.