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TIL that some people don't have an inner internal monologue.

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o0xK TIL If the ancient Persians decided something while drunk, they had a rule to reconsider it when sober and if they made a decision sober, they would reconsider it while drunk.
LLDv TIL that Apollo 11, 14 and 15 missions have left mirrors on the surface of the Moon to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon by aiming a laser at them. Scientists have confirmed that the Moon is spiraling away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 cm per year.
BDBy TIL that between 1941-1944, Turkish diplomats saved thousands of Jews by issuing them Turkish passports and sometimes pulling them off trains headed for the death camps. Among these diplomats was Necdet Kent, whose son Muhtar Kent, is the current chairman and former chief executive of Coca-Cola.
1avmd TIL Oppossums eat ticks and fleas. They will eat up to 5000 ticks per season.
vW5j TIL of the Australian Rhino Project, that wants to bring a viable population of Rhinos to Australia to protect them from poachers…