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TIL that there are apocalypse guidestones in Georgia with rules on how to rebuild society in 8 languages.

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698d7 TIL Broccoli only became available in grocery stores in the UK and Ireland in the late 1970s
aw4v9 TIL most internet data is not transferred across continents by satellites. Instead, 97% of intercontinental data is transferred through hundreds of thousands of miles of cables at the bottom of the ocean.
aOD9 TIL patent offices do not accept applications for perpetual motion machines.
vn87 TIL NOAA has had a 400 sq ft underwater research base for 30 years; long term residents are called ‘aquanauts’
eaj6 TIL the typical tax evader in the United States is a male under the age of 50 in the highest tax bracket and with a complicated return, and the most common means of tax evasion is overstatement of charitable contributions, particularly church donations.