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TIL the Great Wall of China is not actually visible from space, its just a myth.

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xVg1 TIL Queen were booed on their first concert to Australia and were told to “go back to Pommyland, ya pooftahs” Lead singer, Freddie Mercury replied on stage with “When we come back to Australia, Queen will be the biggest band in the world!
5V0Pn TIL The Doomsday Clock was initially set to seven minutes to midnight purely because the artist, Martyl Langsdorf, thought it looked aesthetically right.
QJ5vd TIL A 2017 study on censorship in Kidz Bop found that replacing words and phrases in songs does not disassociate the original in the minds of young listeners who have heard the uncensored song.
Z8bvD TIL: The Dutch government built the worlds first floating dairy farm, the Floating Farm, in anticipation of a world with shrinking land supply. The cows are on the farm's second level, a garden-like enclosure where the animals will be milked by robots, above is a greenhouse with grass for foraging.
lok5A TIL in Sierra Leone, before getting a driver's license, you have to buy a board game called "The Drivers' Way" and play it at least once. The game involves rolling stoplight-themed dice and moving models of classic cars around a board, together with answering questions about the country’s road laws