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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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ADLAl High-speed video imaging colored to reveal the two main components of a sneeze show a shower of larger droplets, green, whose trajectories can extend up to two meters from the person sneezing, yellow, and a cloud, red, made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas. Pathogen-bearing droplets can be suspended in the air for not just seconds, but minutes, and can travel up to 27 feet.
D1wlY TIL that 17 miles (27km) from Mount Rushmore, a gigantic sculpture is being carved in the Black Hills, showing Native Chief Crazy Horse on his steed, pointing east. The contruction has started in 1948 and will take another 50 years to be completed.
XENp8 TIL That every stockholder has the right to obtain a copy of a companies register or shareholder list which is a list of all shareholders and their holdings, that a company must record. The process depends on which state the company is incorporated.This is the same in the UK.
GkP7 TIL Peter Jackson hates the Dead Men of Dunharrow (Army of the Dead) in The Return of the King, but kept them in, so he wouldn’t disappoint die-hard fans.
YpV0d TIL Dave Karnes (former US marine) left his office in CT as soon as he saw the 9/11 attack on the news, grabbed his uniform, got a regulation haircut, and went to Ground Zero THE DAY of the attack, and aided the rescue efforts. Then he re-enlisted and served TWO TOURS.