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TIL that there is a practice in China for reusing fatbergs from the sewers as cooking oil.

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nWgEP TIL American politician R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide on live TV, shooting himself at a press conference on January 22nd 1987 the day before he was due to be sentenced, after being found guilty on 11 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, perjury, and interstate transportation in aid of racketeering
0eeR TIL in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” the time machine was to be a 1969 Chevrolet van. The idea was abandoned because it was too similar to the DeLorean used in “Back to the Future”. A telephone booth was eventually used despite it’s similarities to “Dr. Who”.
dDwAd TIL Even during cloudless days with clear air, you can see a bright ring around the Sun caused by the scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere. A coronagraph and visual skyphotometer can study the intensity of solar aureole
ZpgQ4 TIL the longest straight border in Australia, the WA/SA-NT border, isn’t straight at all. It moves 127 metres from the 129° E parallel halfway. 40yrs after two marked obelisks were placed on other sides of the continent, it was realised one was entirely in the wrong place—but kept the border anyway.
awWAy TIL Canadian researchers developed an implant which restores the movement of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease who have trouble walking, freezing on the spot and falling. By electrical stimulation to the spine via the implant, the signal reawakens the feedback from legs to brain.