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TIL that 80% of the population of the Australian mining town of Coober Pedy live underground

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9YaeM TIL In response to the film "Apollo 18", NASA engineer John Schuessler clarified that moon landings ended with Apollo 17 because NASA simply did not have the time or funds to fit in more moon landings after 1972. He also sees no evidence of extraterrestrial life on the Moon
16RW4 TIL: For decades, people pronounced the year 2000 as "twenty hundred" since it came after the 1800s and 1900s. But for the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", Stanley Kubrick included specific instructions for journalists to refer to the movie as "two thousand and one"
krQB TIL that in Dublin, Irish Car Bomb cocktail is known as a “Nine-Eleven” as Americans often order it without thinking of the offense it can cause.
R8Ma TIL that circumcision is so popular in South Korea that the circumcision rate exceeds the birth rate
0wJ4j TIL the first ever synthetically produced color pigment, Egyptian blue, was created around 2,200 B.C. In 2006 scientists discovered it glows under fluorescent lights, allowing us to detect it on artifacts where it is no longer visible to the naked eye.