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TIL the Navy SEALs that killed bin laden got stealth series fleshlights as a ‘thank you’ from the company.

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OowdR TIL Utqiagvik, Alaska People often call the town "the top of the world," When the sun sets on November 18, it will stay below the horizon until January 23, resulting in a polar night that lasts for about 66 days.
P1k6e TIL Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan, a PhD student at Georgia Tech created Hathaani - a robotic violinist designed to play Carnatic music
b9OGN TIL that the "division symbol" is actually named the "Obelus", and that the ISO standard for mathematical signs says that it "should not be used" for division.
p8JRe TIL the Shrine of Rememberence in Melbourne, Australia was desiged with a cutout in the roof such that sunlight only shines through on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It lights up the word "Love" in the inscription during the moment of silence.
QlnL TIL that Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake.