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TIL that "nail houses" are buildings in China that are left standing alone whilst massive development progresses around them, usually looking really awkward and out of place when the project is done. This happens because their owners refuse to leave their homes and the development progresses anyway.

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LkK90 TIL about a Swiss satellite designed to clean up some of the space debris that orbits the Earth as a result of sending objects in space. A "janitor satellite".
b8Ja TIL 3M engineers inadvertently built a force field under a huge roll of fast moving tape strong enough to act like an impenetrable wall.
M7Nk8 TIL Abraham Lincoln and Elvis Presley were related, 3rd cousins 5 times removed. They are part of the Harrison family line, a family with medieval roots who produced a US founding father and two other US presidents besides Lincoln
kJood TIL It is estimated that 117 Billion humans have ever been born (Since 190,000 BCE). By 50,000 BCE, approximately 7.8 Billion humans had already lived and died.
QJZ6k TIL that a small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island, Russia until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed.