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TIL about The Musalman, the world's only newspaper which is entirely written by hand instead of being typed. This Chennai-based Urdu-language newspaper has been circulated since 1927 and is 4 pages long.

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mx84O A 23-year-old man fell into Yellowstone Park's hot spring and completely dissolved within a day. The waters of the hot spring aren't just incredibly hot, but very acidic too. This is due to one of the largest magma chambers in the world beneath the spring.
drnK TIL the film ‘Top Gun’ was made in collaboration with the Pentagon, enlistment spiked when it was released, the Navy set up recruitment tables at theaters playing the movie, and polls soon showed rising confidence in the military.
NXrYb TIL that when the British sent their first diplomatic mission to China in 1793, the Chinese spoke to them in Latin because last time they communicated diplomatically with Europeans was 1600 years ago with Roman empire.
N79ae TIL SOS doesn't actually stand for anything at all, it's just very distinctive and easy to write in Morse code
wglM TIL that in 2005, security guards at Australia’s Parliament House were banned from calling people ‘mate’. The ban lasted one day.