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TIL that there are six million iPhones in Iran, despite them being banned by both the Iranian government and international sanctions.

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d8n1r TIL UPS trucks in aggregate save over 10,000,000 gallons of fuel annually by almost never turning left
LBev TIL once 4th largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea, has declined to only 10% of its original size since the 1960’s. The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters.
ANYxB TIL each element on the Periodic Table corresponds to one solution of the main equation in the field of quantum mechanics & that the entire field of chemistry emerged from that single equation.
nWV6G TIL Australia has snow, ski resorts, the Australian Alps and a higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden.
X0gDE TIL over one million mummified animals have been found in Egypt. (Mostly cats, of course.)