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TIL the theme song for Futurama is based on the 1967 French electronic song “Psyché Rock.”

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69Xam TIL Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s throne took 7 years to make, costing 4X as much as the World famous Taj Mahal - More than 2500 lbs. of gold and 500 lbs. of precious gemstones were embedded in the Throne and yes, the Koh-i-Noor Diamond was just one of them
woOBW TIL: The Colorado River is going to dry up in about two years. Reservoirs could drop so low by 2025 that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam to Arizona, California and Mexico.
6E6LW TIL of Cortes Bank, an underwater mountain 100 miles off the southern California coast that rises to within 3 feet of the ocean surface. Currents pushed up by the reef produce breaking waves of 80+ feet.
ZpAEQ TIL Teruo Nakamura, a Japanese solider in WWII, fled to Indonesia in 1944. There he survived alone in the jungle as the believed that the war continued. Later, a pilot accidentally found his hut in 1974 and shortly after, he became the last WWII soldier to surrender (30 years after the war ended).
rRNGM Frozen in time, Franz Josef Land is one of the last lingering remnants of the truly wild Arctic. The remote and nearly uninhabited 192-island archipelago is renowned for its biodiversity, which includes polar bears, walruses, bowhead whales, belugas, and narwhals. The intensifying impact of climate change, however, nearly turned this serene environment deadly for National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala and his crew.