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TIL we understand how gravity works, but we still don't know why it works

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4Xayb TIL that the Philippines was under American rule. Spain ceded the Philippines to America for $20 million.
7rlvX TIL Hawaii is not part of any continent.
rB9W TIL that since 1912, many impractical ideas have been suggested to recover the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, including filling the wreck with ping-pong balls, injecting her with 180,000 tons of Vaseline, or using liquid nitrogen to turn her into a giant iceberg that would float back to the surface.
bMr7 TIL blanket octopi have evolved an immunity to the poison of the man o’ war and rips off its tentacles to use as whips
loEp5 TIL that the Aryan certificate, which served as proof of Aryan origin in Nazi Germany, is still today a permissible document to prove the German nationality.