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TIL that when Bill Nye The Science Guy’s father was a POW in Japan during WWII for four years, he made sundials to figure out the latitudinal location of the prison camp.

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j69eX TIL of the Watermelon Riot, in which a stolen watermelon slice led to 17 deaths and property damage
9YEp TIL Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, Kohlrabi, and Cabbage are all actually the same species…bred by humans from one plant
yVyEl TIL about Behind Closed Doors, a book of pornographic SpongeBob drawings created by Nickelodeon storyboard artists. "The illustrations...contain scenarios such as SpongeBob masturbating, Mr. Krabs defecating into a toilet, and Squidward Tentacles 'reimagined as a sentient penis with tentacles.'"
KOoa9 TIL, numbers that are the product of two prime numbers (e.g. 4, 6, 9, 10, etc.) are called semiprimes, and sometimes they can be the squares of prime numbers. Semiprime numbers have no composite numbers as factors other than themselves, which is another reason why they are called semiprimes.
ZxEY TIL a man claimed ownership of the moon and has legally sold over 300 million acres of extraterrestrial land to over 2 million people in 176 countries.