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TIL a group of 100 artists covertly placed props with coded messages onto the set of the soap opera 'Melrose Place' over the span of 2 years. Props included bedsheets with unrolled condoms titled 'Safety Sheets' and paintings depicting locations related to high-profile deaths/murders.

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xVbm7 TIL The Co-founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, bought a 28,100 acres of land in the U.S. for $23 million. His long term plan is to retire to the region. And his short term plan - to stop the logging operations and preserve the country.
9wVaQ TIL Canada's Territorial Waters are larger than its Exclusive Economic Zone. The former extend only 12 Nautical miles(NM) from the shore, but also include inland marine waters such as Hudson Bay, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and the internal waters of the Arctic Archipelago. The latter to 200NM
9A8m TIL a South African IT company proved that it was faster to send information via carrier pigeon than the country’s leading internet service provider.
9YojX TIL that a Hawaiian folk story told of how a goddess named Kohe-kohe-lele, meaning "Kapo with the flying vagina", saved her sister from being assaulted by a half-man, half-hog fertility god named Kampua'a by detaching her vagina and luring an intrigued Kampua'a to the edge of the country.
6PPl TIL The US government is building a center to record all online information and communication on earth. It can house all the data on earth ~40 times over and is on the scale of yottabytes. 1 yottabyte=1 trillion terabytes. It is scheduled to be completed Sep. 2013