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TIL that the Memory of Mankind has buried modern 'clay tablets' preserving the most important modern knowledge beneath a salt mine in Austria for future generations with clues to decipher them

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KYdG4 TIL France has an island west of Canada, just off the coast of Newfoundland called Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Therefore, you can fly from Canada to France in an hour.
ZpmBR TIL Mr. Lawrence, the voice of Plankton, worked as a layout assistant on Ren and Stimpy, and oversaw some of the grotesquely detailed closeup oil paintings made famous on the show, a style that was later imitated on Sponegebob.
a8rlJ TIL the median pay for dental hygienists in the U.S. was $77,810 per year as of 2021 (for a job that requires just a two-year degree)
e095g TIL of Chinese assassin, Shi Jianqiao. In the Warlord Era (1916-1928) when Shi was 19, her warlord father was defeated & executed by a rival, Sun Chuanfang. Shi spent her 20s tracking Sun down, killing him in 1935. Chinese society was so moved by her act of filial revenge that the court pardoned her
P14Ge TIL the largest Colombian "narco sub" to be decommissioned since records began in 1993 was seized in the Pacific Ocean in 2023 (3 tons of cocaine were on board). The vessel was about 100 ft long & 10 ft wide. Up to that point, the Colombian navy had seized a total of 228 drug-laden semi-submersibles