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TIL 70% of murders in Detroit go unsolved.

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781rx TIL that the moon is rusting. Lunar hematite which is formed through oxidation of lunar surface iron by the oxygen from the Earth’s upper atmosphere that has been continuously blown to the lunar surface by solar wind when the Moon is in Earth’s magnetotail.
e0Zk TIL According to University of California, the world’s servers processed 9.87 Zettabytes of information in a single year. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000 GigaBytes!
grKrL TIL about the Nemi ships, two ancient Roman ships built under the reign of Caligula and discovered in 1929. The larger ship was an elaborate floating palace containing marble, heating and plumbing, and baths. They were both destroyed during WW2.
rNDMe TIL about the JRC Global Buffet in Watford, London. This 27,000 square foot restaurant can serve up to 3,000 people per day from a selection of over 300 dishes from around the world.
oRWQ7 TIL that the small ridges on the roof of your mouth are called rugae? These unique patterns of ridges are as unique to each person as fingerprints!