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TIL there’s a school in Russia for mastering “The Art of oral sex”

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VBYWQ TIL In 2010, the Russian Navy ordered the repair of a nuclear battlecruiser at a cost of $11 million dollars. Prosecutors later revealed that the actual cost of this work should have been $8 million and the other $3 million was stolen. As was discovered later, no repair work was carried at all.
N7QGN TIL Forty of the world's fifty tallest mountain peaks are in Pakistan.
awGNb TIL that warmer seas and oceans increase the occurence of the organism Noctiluca, that creates the beautiful blue luminscence in seas and oceans. The latest finding is that the loss of snow and ice in the himalayas changes the ecosystem in the Arabian Sea.
dDp08 TIL that Nice biscuits are actually pronounced "niece" biscuits, with the name likely based on the southern French city of Nice. Nice!
oBKDW TIL of Project West Ford in Which The US Military Placed 480,000,000 Needles of Copper Into Medium Earth Orbit, In Hopes of Creating an Artificial Ionosphere For Radio