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TIL A man in Australia declared his farm an independent micronation called the Province of Bumbunga. He decided to plant a huge scale model of Britain using thousands of strawberries, to attract tourism.

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4XBoJ TIL To demonstrate the ability of drones to accomplish work while swarming, researchers programmed flying robot quadrotors to perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame.
6EDMY TIL Sea Silk, one of the rarest fabrics in the world, is secreted by Pen Shell mollusks to attach themselves to rocks or the seafloor. When harvested from these mollusks and woven into thin fibers the silk is even lighter and smoother than conventional silk.
LkNwQ TIL In 2009, Stephen Hawking threw a party at the University of Cambridge, complete with balloons, hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne. Just as expected, nobody showed up because he only sent out invitations after his party was over. It was, he said, "a welcome reception for future time travelers,".
XE4nj TIL Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the term god has no coherent and unambiguous definition and/or that every other theological position assumes too much about the concept of god and many other theological concepts.
1A5P TIL it’s only called an acronym when you pronounce the abbreviation as a real word (ex. NASA). Otherwise it is known as an initialism (ex. FBI).