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TIL The Salvation Army is run by evangelicals

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BAnx TIL The “90-Mile Straight” across Australia’s Nullarbor Plain is not the longest straight road in the world. That honor belongs to Highway 10, located in Saudi Arabia, which runs due East for 140 miles.
GAXj4 TIL more women than men have contributed to out gene pool due to the fact pre-historic men had children with between 1.5 and 3.3 women on average
nWo87 TIL Apple does not let the bad guys in movies use iPhones on screen
XK6X TIL that during World War 2, the British captured Germans and put them in a bugged mansion where they served them wine and food and thus they were able to gather important intelligence from casual conversations between the ‘prisoners’ that helped them greatly win the war
YnAA TIL there is a mid-rise shopping center in Zimbabwe which uses an air conditioning system inspired by African termite hills. It is ventilated and cooled by natural means, and uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building its size.