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TIL the existence of MI6, the agency with which James Bond works, wasn’t officially acknowledged by the British government until 1994

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Mnom TIL a man staying in an inward-looking hotel room at Rogers Centre (Toronto) was caught masturbating during a baseball game in full view of the stands, thinking the windows were one-way. Patrons must now sign contracts stipulating that they will not perform lewd acts within view of the stadium.
4X6Dw TIL Wadi-al-Salam, the world's largest graveyard, covers 1500 acres, sees 350 burials a day and contains 5 million bodies.
P1ZgL TIL that photosynthesis doesn't recycle CO₂ into oxygen, the oxygen actually comes from water. Plants break down water (H₂O) to consume the hydrogen necessary to make sugar, and release the oxygen. The CO₂ is never broken down, plants just use it as a building block to make larger carbon compounds.
MeBP8 TIL that long-haul flight crews have their own little area for sleeping when they're on rest time
n9xW TIL that there`s already a successor for the Blu Ray Disc, that has a capacity of up to 6TB and data transfer rates like a SATA 3 Hard Drive