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TIL the only countries not have ratified the UN treaty for children’s rights are Somalia, South Sudan and the United States

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E187o TIL that the Department of Energy will warn future humans 10,000 years from now about the presence of buried nuclear waste in New Mexico with 32 25-foot granite pillars. The pillars will be engraved with pictograms and warnings in many languages, along with buried magnets and radar reflectors.
npGW TIL: Scotland actually has dolphins, not just any dolphins but the worlds largest bottlenose dolphins.
5VDQp TIL the universe is not "locally real"—the evidence provided by 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients John Clauser, Alain Aspect, & Anton Zeilinger, who showed that objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings ("local") and may also lack definite properties prior to measurement ("real").
78lKM TIL Despite having the same name, largely using the same menu, and operating mostly in the Northeast, all locations of both Kennedy Fried Chicken and Crown Fried Chicken are independently owned and operated and not franchises.
nY9 TIL that the USA has the highest cancer survival rates of any developed country, despite no universal health care