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TIL that Space Smells like Seared Steak.

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7B7P TIL due to Niger having the world’s highest fertility rate, nearly 50% of the entire population is under the age of 14 years old
0opR TIL Google’s most efficient data center runs at 95 degrees using only fresh air cooling, which means no air conditioning units burning through electricity every day; the servers run so hot that humans cannot go near them for extended periods.
Pa1O TIL during WWII 35,000 US and Canadian troops bombarded then stormed the Japanese Held isle of Kiska. However, all the Japanese had secretly left the island. 32 died from friendly fire and millions of dollars worth of artillery was wasted.
7yXb TIL that a man in Saudi Arabia installed a fridge on the street and stocks it with free food for the homeless people in his neighborhood.
m0dM TIL that when told Sholem Aleichem, author of the book on which Fiddler on the Roof is based, “is the Jewish Mark Twain”, Twain replied “please tell him that I am the American Sholem Aleichem”