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TIL It took Chinese authorities 7 minutes to locate and apprehend a BBC reporter using a network of CCTV camera and facial recognition technology

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OoPWg TIL that an unforeseen consequence of London's Walkie Talkie skyscraper was that the building's curvature acts as a concave mirror facing the sun, leading to street-level recordings of temperature as high as 117°C. Parked vehicles have been damaged and a reporter was able to fry an egg on the ground
VMD7p TIL that killer whales are actually dolphins
KOZQE TIL about the Anti-Superstition Society of Chicago who, in 1962, awarded John Glenn (occupant of the 13th capsule in space) with a gold watch with each number replaced with the number 13. There were 13 senators attending, each paid $13.13 to be there, and it was held on Friday the 13th.
neVWP TIL that the Vatican is the largest wine consumer in the world per capita. Each resident of the city-state consumes an average of 74 liters of wine per year, or nearly 100 bottles. This is twice as much as in France and seven times more than in the United States.
l7pbB TIL Monasteries used to distill a compound called "uisge beatha" (pronounced uska beg) which means "water of life" in Gaelic. After it got popularized, people started calling it solely "uska", which led to its final form in present, whiskey.