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TIL South Korea sells "mini studying rooms" for your home.
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TIL: Newly declassified public records obtained via the Freedom of Information Act shed light on Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground military experiments. Tests involved human exposure to biological and chemical agents while others studied weaponized mosquitos released on civilian populations in the U.S.
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TIL that Pluto Time is the time of day when the light on Earth is comparable to how bright it gets on Pluto.
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TIL that Kalpana Chawla, one of the astronauts killed in the Columbia tragedy, knew Steve Morse of Deep Purple and had even taken the band’s “Machine Head” album to space with her on the mission. Morse wrote a song called “Contact Lost” as a tribute to her.
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TIL that the Iranian crown jewels are considered so valuable that they are still used as a reserve to back Iranian currency.
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TIL that a VIN (vehicle identification number) actually stands for something and not just a random set of numbers.