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TIL that scientists using high-resolution satellite images, drone photos, and ground surveys, have discovered a hidden monument in the center of Petra

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XGRQ TIL that Fazal Din a soldier in the British Indian Army was impaled by a Japanese officers sword. He then turned the tables by removing the sword from his chest and killing 3 japanese Soldiers, 1 of which an officer.
rNYAM TIL that the coldest temperature in the universe, as far as scientists can tell, occurred on Earth. In 2003, physicists at MIT reduced the temperature of a cloud of sodium molecules to 810 trillionths of a degree F above absolute zero.
78peP TIL There are more flamenco schools in Japan than Spain
oB9RY TIL that Dr. Martin Luther King jr was allowed to attend Morehouse college at the age of 15 due to a classroom shortage of students brought on by world war II. He was still required to pass the college entrance exams which he did at only 15 years old.
1OMX TIL air conditioning in the United States has a global-warming impact equivalent to every US household driving an extra 10,000 miles per year