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TIL Minecraft is partnering with UN Habitat to offer kids the chance to design changes they would like to see in their environment.

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kJXvg TIL of Pythagorean Triple Square Day. This occurs once per century on 9/16/25. The square roots of those numbers make up the Pythagorean triple of 3^2+4^2=5^2.
9DE7 TIL the 442nd Infantry Regiment, composed of largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was “Go for Broke” and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
a8nG9 TIL that along the Egyptian–Sudanese border, there is a peace of land, Bir Tawil, claimed by neither country. Egypt assert that it belongs to Sudan, and Sudan assert that it belongs to Egypt.
W8B TIL Blue-eyed people tend to have a higher alcohol tolerance… and are therefore more likely to be drunks.
9wMNm TIL that my university has their own version of the Poop Knife- they did research to see if a knife made of poop could disarticulate a dog