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TIL Iran has more cabinet members with PhDs from US Universities, than the US cabinet itself does

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neMM9 TIL that Lima is the second largest desert city after Cairo. The city faces acute water shortage due to very low precipitation. To solve their water shortage issues, the locals use meshed fog catchers made of bamboo frames to harvest water from the thick sea fog that covers Lima all year round.
OGlaY TIL that a man inserting a bottle to his anus worsened tensions that led to a war
N7jVE TIL that David Bowie predicted the uprise of the Internet in an interview in 1999, underlining the importance of the “demystification process between the artist and the audience”.
npNo TIL Former U.S President Jimmy Carter helped to reduce the Guinea Worm Disease cases from 3.5 million to 126. This disease is now at the brink of extinction.
XEmPX TIL Tolkien had Beren and Lúthien engraved on his and his wife's grave, Lúthien being the most beautiful being in all Arda and Beren the man she forsook her immortality for