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TIL There’s actually more energy in one cubic metre of space due to the Higgs field than the Sun outputs in 1,000 years

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J1vyv TIL about a study where monkeys were shown to be willing to pay (sacrificing food) for risque photos of other monkeys
6E9g8 TIL symbolically named Torch Tower building in Dubai have catches fire 2 times in 2 years
KOVE9 TIL in the event of victory in WWII the Nazis planned to host every Olympic Games that followed in a stadium that would seat 405’000 people
1aGAr TIL NYC's Roosevelt Island doesn't have a need for garbage trucks and weekly trash pick up. Instead there is an automated vacuum collection. Put your garbage into a porthole and it's transported via underground high speed pneumatic tubes to a centralized location where it's finally picked up.
6EVYY TIL that in 2005 Agostino Vespucci's notes were found, written in 1503, revealing that Leonardo Da Vinci was busy painting a "half-length portrait painting of Lisa del Giocondo", Mona Lisa.