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TIL that Pakistan’s parliament is the only parliament in the world to be fuelled solely by solar power.

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e0nw5 TIL: Of the Blood Falls, a waterfall in Antarctica made up of primordial bacteria which have been sealed away from the rest of the earth for millions of years.
jmoa TIL: Now-extinct giant sloths dug burrows which still exist.
kODVE TIL that Jack White and Jack Black recorded a song together as Jack Gray
b6jbj TIL a judge in Brazil ordered identical twin brothers to pay maintenance to a child whose paternity proved inconclusive after a DNA test and their refusal to say who had fathered the child. The judge said the two men were taking away from the young girl's right to know who her biological father was.
5YEp9 TIL UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention was created to preserve the Temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt. After the Nasser Dam was built, the temple was briefly submerged underwater and a large effort was undertaken to relocate the mountain it was carved on and rebuild the temple piece by piece.