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TIL China has a telescope on the moon.

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rB6w TIL a lobsters brain is located in its throat, its nervous system in its abdomen, its teeth in its stomach and its kidneys in its head. It also hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb, meaning they can be right-clawed or left-clawed.
4X8Vb TIL that in the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, Jaguar fitted $300k diamonds to fronts of two of their Formula 1 cars to advertise “Ocean’s Twelve”. One of the cars crashed on the first lap, and the diamond, uninsured due to the nature of the stunt, was, and still remains, lost.
J1NKj TIL there is a group called The Unicode Consortium. It's most well known for approving emoji designs. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which keeps code and text standardized across platforms.
GYeyg TIL of Archibald Hall who was a thief and serial killer active while working for the British aristocracy, stealing and killing several of his employers and fellow house staff. So yes, the butler did it.
694yX TIL: During World War 1, Canadian Soldiers Cunningly Exploited Germans' Trust by Offering Tins of Corned Beef, Only to Later Toss Grenades into Their Trenches