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TIL that imgur serves more images in ten minutes than there are in the entire Library of Congress.

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ND6Q TIL that in 1987, Myanmar lowered its official literacy rate from 79% to 19% in order to qualify for least developed country status to receive UN debt relief.
ANNko TIL Scientists at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia spent 17 years trying to identify powerful but extremely short radio bursts that would appear at seemingly random intervals. In 2015 they finally identified the cause: a microwave oven at the facility being opened prematurely.
XRkX TIL Actor James Woods observed and reported suspicious behaviour from four passengers, with no apparent luggage, casing the plane. Six weeks later, these same passengers carried out the 9/11 attacks. The FBI received Woods’ FAA report the evening of September 11…
l7EoV TIL that cows actually only have one stomach, but it has four different compartments to it, so you will hear them being described as having four stomachs. Each compartment (rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum) is used for a different stage of their digestive process.
vjgL TIL Most scholars accept the story of Dhul-Qarnayn in the Quran is a reference to Alexander the Great