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TIL that Saudi Arabia imports sand from Australia and the UK

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7rPKM TIL the name X-Ray came from its discoverer Wilhelm Röntgen while he investigated many properties of the new rays. He temporarily termed them "X-rays", using the mathematical designation ("X") for something unknown.
4XrdR TIL after Ylvis got famous with 'What Does The Fox Say?', they wrote a song for their younger brother to sing about how much less famous he was than them. Savage.
X0QZD TIL Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who discovered the Chandrasekhar limit—the maximum mass (about 1.4 solar masses) a white dwarf star can have before collapsing into a neutron star or black hole. He won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1aWZO TIL that when Peru’s national football team qualified for this year’s World Cup, their fans’ celebrations were so loud that they produced enough of a seismic wave to trigger earthquake alerts in Lima.
OoXRg TIL Dr. Bagenholm fell face first into a frozen river while skiing and got stuck. Doctors revived her from being clinically dead which led to the development of therapeutic hypothermia, which has increased survival rates and brain function in many heart surgery, epileptic, and stroke patients.