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TIL the highspeed rail in Indonesia is called "Whoosh"
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TIL the band Chumbawamba, mainly known for their ubiquitous hit “Tubthumping”, was actually a politically charged anarcho-punk band who once advised fans to steal their music out of chain stores.
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TIL that mosquitos can pause & resume their development lifecycle stages egg -> larva -> pupa -> adult. While each of these stages typically last 5 - 14 days, if conditions are unfavourable (heat, cold etc), they can delay the transition by even a year by going into diapause (dormant stage)
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TIL that if you put a bottle of champagne into a microwave it doesn’t simply explode- the entire microwave blows up.
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TIL: In 1849, a woman named Mrs. Charlotte M. Winslow concocted a pain reliever for teething children called Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, which contained morphine sulphate, sodium carbonate, spirits foeniculiand, and aqua ammonia. Shockingly, the syrup remained in the market until 1930.
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TIL of Alfred Redl, an Austrian counterintelligence officer who spent about ten years up to 1913 sending major military secrets to Russia, including Austria's plan for invading Serbia, which Russia then handed to Serbia.