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TIL the top level domain in Kenya is .ke. The Kenyan government uses gov.ke, and Kenyan companies use co.ke :)

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bP8Z TIL that Amelia Rose Earhart actually has never held the record as the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft; that record belongs to Richarda Morrow-Tait
9VPM TIL that although Mississippi has one of the lowest per capita income rates in the United States, Mississippians consistently rank as one of the highest per capita in charitable contributions
vPyER TIL that on dry, cloudless nights in the desert, water can freeze at temperatures as high as 41 degrees Fahrenheit, 5 Celsius. This is due to a process referred to as or "Night Sky Cooling" or "Radiative Cooling", and allowed desert dwellers to regularly make ice more than 2000 years ago.
EWkV TIL Elephants bury their dead and will revisit graves generations later. They’ve even been known to bury humans that have passed away
DVxe TIL if you shrunk the Sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way down using the same scale, it would be the size of the United States.