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TIL that Space Smells like Seared Steak.

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Y7Zyd TIL In Finland, cab drivers are required by law to pay royalty fees for songs played on their taxi radio while working & conveying paying passengers. The reason being, cabbies use music for commerce while making a profit. A fixed sum is to be paid to the Finnish Composers' Copyright Society annually
N7XZP TIL China has 151 cities with a metro population of at least a million. Shanghai at 44.2 million has a larger population than the entire state of California.
BLOb TIL the Statue of Liberty’s star-shaped base is actually an old artillery fort built to protect the NYC harbor.
v1kPx TIL in 1938 William Cooper led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League to the German Consulate in Melbourne to hand over a petition protesting the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany.” 70 years later Israel planted 70 trees in remembrance of the protest
ne0W TIL there is a man in Australia who ages so slowly that by age 40, he is only at the developmental level of a 10 year old