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TIL There is a PINK lake in this planet of ours

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xVaOk TIL about a soccer ball that survived the Challenger disaster in 1986. 30 years later it finally reached space and flew in the ISS for 173 days and almost 3000 trips around the earth.
y9EV TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.
dDlpj TIL about Zersetzung, a psychological warfare technique by which the Stasi repressed opponents in East Germany by methods such as gaslighting or spreading rumors
JYWV4 TIL Finland has ten trees for every person in the world
1yYr TIL Namco filed a patent in 1995 prohibiting other game developers from inserting playable mini-games on their loading screens for the past 20 years.