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TIL that Icelanders look down upon public officials mentioning God in speech. Its use on national tv once horrified viewers, inciting fear of societal collapse rather than optimism.

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bMDj TIL the paradoxical frog, pseudis paradoxa, is the only known animal that has babies larger than the parent.
aw5Bb TIL about Femtoengineering, which is technology 6 orders of magnitude smaller than nanotech. At this scale, engineering utilises quarks & strings to manipulate atoms. If achieved, could lead towards macro-scale teleportation, as well as breakthroughs in force field generation and antigravity tech.
b60BN TIL The original version of the Tetris theme song is about a merchant who seduces women to get them to buy his wares.
ZpM4 TIL That on October 29th 529BC Was The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder
KlOQ TIL there is a picture of earth taken from Saturn 6,000,000,000 km away.