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TIL the United Arab Emirates seriously consider building an artificial mountain to change the climate

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6ExPX Today I learned that a cast member on the TV show Survivor found a package of cocaine that had washed up on his camps shore
0OaN TIL that in 2014, three mycologists (fungus experts) from Kew Gardens in England, analysed the DNA of a supermarket packet of dried porcini mushrooms and found three species unknown to science.
X0MYQ TIL that during a murder trial in 1994 an English jury got drunk and consulted an Ouija board to determine the killer. This led to a retrial.
0dPpL TIL about British politician Tony Benn met his future spouse in Oxford in 1949. Nine days later, he proposed marriage to her on a park bench. Subsequently, he purchased the bench from Oxford City Council and installed it in the garden of their home. The couple remained together for 51 years.
d8N5E TIL Granulation on the sun is visible only in excellent seeing with high power and at least a 4-inch aperture filtered telescope. Sometimes called rice grain or lemon peel, this textured appearance is due to hot gas continually boiling up to the Sun’s surface, cooling, and sinking down again