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TIL The song "Africa" by Toto is forever playing somewhere in the Namibian desert

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Z8oo TIL NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, the largest open air building in the world, is so big that it has its own weather. Air condition must be used all the time otherwise it may rain inside.
BrZND TIL Frank Zappa's 1969 album Hot Rats was one of the first albums to use a 16 track recorder, and among the first to record drums on multiple tracks, giving stereo drums, all of which helped achieve outstanding technical quality.
OGQkY TIL that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star.
GYLV5 TIL: "we were dueling" is a prohibited defense for homicide in Virginia
4XK8g TIL Mount Everest is only the world's tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But since the earth bulges at the equator, the mountain Chimborazo in Ecuador is the tallest mountain if you measure from the earth's core.