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TIL the chief minster of Karnataka, India is a self-confessed agnostic. During his swearing-in ceremony, he took oath in the name of “Truth” and not God.

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EgkNp TIL about the 2007 South Korea oil spill, one of the worst oil spill in SK, had over a million volunteers joined in on the campaign to clean the disaster in less than 3 months.
WkYLB TIL Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron, is widely considered to be the very first “computer programmer” based on her notes for an “Analytical Engine” written more than 150 years ago
rr64 TIL of what3words, a geocoding system in which the world is divided into 57 trillion 3 x 3 m squares, each with a unique 3-word address. A 3-word address is more precise than a postal address and is useful for locating individuals in developing countries.
YpgaG TIL of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, presented annually to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. The award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".
epgRJ TIL that microwaves heat food by doing it's best to twist the molecules to align with the wave, OR IN SHORT: food is trying to magnetize itself.