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TIL Hawaii is made up of hundreds of islands that span 1500 miles, not just the 8 that most people know

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rNGW0 TIL Samsung created a butt shaped robot that sits on their phones to test their durability. The robot exerts 220 pounds of pressure on their phones during testing. The robot even wears jeans.
M0Db TIL - In the study involving the 26 engineers, scientists, and others taking Psychedelics the participants actually took Mescaline Not LSD
N7a6E TIL that the iconic Easter Island heads actually have hidden bodies that have been found during excavations. The statues were partially buried due to landslides over the years and their bodies were only rediscovered relatively recently.
6E6DX TIL Seinfeld has had difficulty reaching global audiences. While it’s popular in Latin America, it hasn’t been widely accepted in Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Its humor, it seems, is just too complicated, too cultural and word-based, to make for easy translation.
8er7G TIL sharks existed before trees