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TIL Taurine supplement makes animals live longer — what it means for people is unclear

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b9lNE TIL that Russia has “closed cities”, cities that have restrictions on visitors and are sometimes omitted from maps.
mxMYy TIL Isaac Asimov wrote a book named The Sensuous Dirty Old Man and was known as "the man with a hundred hands", in reference to his constant groping and molestation of women.
4gvb TIL Hong Kong has the fastest internet upload and download speed in the world at 56.78 mbps and 68.27 mbps, respectively. This is 48.76 mbps faster than average of the G8 countries for both indexes.
890K TIL the longest film ever made (Modern Times Forever, 2011) has a duration of 240 hours or 10 days, and shows centuries of decay, compressed into the span of the film.
5YPaB TIL Carl Sagan's team wanted to include the Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun" on the Voyager Golden Records (discs containing greetings in 60 languages, music and sounds from Earth aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977), but the record company EMI, which held the copyrights, declined.