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TIL China built bootleg versions of many European cities, such as Paris (Tianducheng)

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oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
E1k4V TIL that if your fingers are severed and reattached, or undergo nerve damage, they will no longer shrivel in water.
awdNA TIL that Oak Bluffs on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, has been a traditional summer destination to upper class African-Americans for over a century. Though many had lived and worked in the area as early as the 1600s, by the late 1800s it had developed into an exclusive resort town.
mxlEx TIL a UFC fan happened to get fighter Rory MacDonald’s old cell phone number and was selecting Rory’s walk out music via text messages without Rory or the UFC finding out for years.
OovWY TIL: The world's smallest 'snowman' is only 2.7μm (micrometres) tall (in comparison a human hair is 75μm). To create it a scientist, Todd Simpson from Western University, stacked 3 tiny silica spheres, added a nose and arms made of platinum and cut the eyes and mouth with a focused ion beam.