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TIL Lego used to bury its used molds in the concrete foundations of buildings to prevent them being reused.

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PYyXV TIL that around 11% of the world population was killed during the Mongol invasions.
BoKK TIL NASA will send a probe to an asteroid, land on it, and harvest a boulder from it. Then bring it into the moon’s orbit for spacewalking astronauts to collect samples.
x6EyB TIL australia is such a poor and backwards country that the "democracy sausages" they use to bribe people to vote, are not even given to them in buns, they put it in a regular slice of bread instead
V6KQ TIL that the word “soccer” was first used in England before the Americans adopted it.
gNn9 TIL Before landing the part of Draco Malfoy, Tom Felton had auditioned to play Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.