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TIL that Dua Lipa's hit was recorded with Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer.

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RYM4 Beverly Hills sits atop an oil field with nearly 100 active wells, many disguised as buildings, producing ~1 million barrels/year
a6vy TIL that the vehicles that rescued people from the Chernobyl disaster are now stored in a remote radioactive vehicle graveyard
nemDW TIL of the 1995 Bojinka plot: a plan to assassinate the pope, bomb 11 US-Asia airliners, and fly a plane into the CIA headquarters. It was foiled after an accidental fire drew suspicion from Filipino police. It was financed by Bin Laden and 9/11 is considered to be a 2nd attempt at a similar attack.
R7eQw TIL the part of the Chinese character that appears alongside other symbols in the same character repeatedly (for example the 人 in 囚, 仄, and 坐) is called the radical. Most of the time this give hints to what the character means.
P0WZ TIL when actor James Cagney received an honorary degree he surprised the university by submitting a paper on soil conservation