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TIL that the Sun’s atmosphere is hotter than the surface.

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ZXNa TIL The Philippines celebrates July 4 to commemorate that day in 1946 when it ceased to be a U.S. territory and the United States officially recognized Philippine independence.
W7RJA TIL that there are wild Wallabies on the Isle of Man
OG5M6 TIL: The Book of Swindles was released in the 16th century and it can be used as a way to avoid scams or as a guidebook to commit them. It categorizes scams into 24 groups, such as Marriage, kidnapping, Women, government corruption, gambling, poetry scams, alchemy, sorcery, and illicit passion.
N76r6 TIL about Nasubi, a contestant on a Japanese game show who was forced to live alone, naked, in a small room and required to enter contests in magazines to provide him with physical objects, such as food and cloths. He never knew he was on TV as the producers had lied to him. Show ran for 15 months.
eyxk TIL that it is near impossible to incapacitate someone with chloroform against their will. It would tak nearly 5 minutes of constant inhanling to render a target incapacitated.