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TIL that Thailand is the second most common place for American tourists to die abroad, after Mexico.

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kpG5 TIL when the Swedish secret police tried to quietly pressure an ISP to install its spying apparatus, the ISP secretly recorded the conversation and released it to the media instead of complying.
va64 TIL that the nonprofit Goodwill pays its disabled workers pennies an hour while the CEO makes up to a quarter of a million dollars a year, all because of a 75 year old federal loophole.
OGGVY TIL: During the Gallipoli campaign a famed war correspondent tasked Keith Murdoch with smuggling a letter back to Britain criticizing the campaign. Military press censors stopped Murdoch and confiscated the letter, Murdoch simply copied the letter from memory and added his name.
KORDB TIL the lifespan of the Hindu deity Brahma is believed to last 311.04 trillion years
6xKZ TIL…..There is a 3.4 acre indoor Biosphere in Oracle, Arizona that researchers lived in for 2 years and 20 months to see what living on Mars would be like. There are 5 biome areas; a rainforest, ocean, wetlands, savannah grassland, fog desert, and agricultural system. As well as a human habitat.