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TIL of Springfield Missouri's Great Cobra Scare of 1953 when 11 cobras got loose in the Route 66 town.

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Y7eR7 TIL Saturn’s moon Titan is the only other world in the solar system other than Earth that has weather and liquid on the surface
vrpL TIL That Pornhub is crowdfunding $3.4 million to film an adult movie in space.
78Zdx TIL the Canfranc Railway Station linking France with Spain was the second largest station in Europe at 240 meters in length when completed in 1928. It was a hub for trafficking of spies, refugees (including artists Ernst and Chagal), and more than 100 tons of gold during WW2.
4mN TIL Korean baseball teams are named after companies that own them, not regions (an example is Samsung Lions)
p818N TIL that garbha Upanishad(esoteric doctrine over the embryo),a hindu upanishadic texts deal with the theory of the formation and development of the human embryo and human body after birth.in section 3 it gives an idea about how embryo develops.