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TIL the average annual amount of rainfall is greater in Sydney than London - about two times as much in fact. Rain generally falls as light drizzle in London and torrential downpours in Sydney.

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Today I learned that in 1985 the US shot down a satellite in orbit with an F-15

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TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled.

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TIL of the Indian Vulture Crisis, where the population of three species of vulture went from 40 million birds in the 80s to just 19,000 in 2017, a decline of 99.95%

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TIL about Lillan Bloodworth, who donated blood every 56 days for nearly 50 years. By the time she stopped at age 85, she had donated 23 gallons. (The average person's body contains about 1.5 gallons.)

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TIL about Helmuth von Moltke. He is the only person in the 18th century whose voice was recorded.

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TIL A High School Teacher who coerced teens into posing for explicit photos was caught because a Janitor cleaning his office saw a CD labeled "300" thinking it was the Zack Snyder film. He played it and discovered the photos.

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TIL that continents move at the same rate fingernails grow

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TIL in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a local style of accordion folk music known as Famo has sprung a fierce bloody gang war which has contributed to its high homicide rate. Little-known to the outside world, scores of musicians and hundreds of DJs, fans, family members etc. have been slain.

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TIL The number of ants on Earth has a mass greater than all birds and mammals combined. There are roughly 20 quadrillion ants in the world, around 2.5 million per human.

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TIL musician Frank Zappa's father worked at the Aberdeen Proving Ground where chemical weapons were tested. The family had to store gas masks in the house. This led to Zappa's work frequently referencing biological warfare, disease, and the defense industry.

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TIL 40% of teens have sent or posted nude or semi-nude pictures.

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TIL The Ottoman Empire never recognized the partition of Poland in the 18th century. Even after the partition, the Ottoman chef de protocol would continue to ostentatiously ask “Where is the deputy from Lehistan (Poland)?” to the annoyance of the diplomats from the partitioning states.

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TIL that there was an Erie Extension Canal that ran from Beaver, Ohio to Erie, PA.

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TIL about Helmuth Von Mulkte. He is the only person born from 18th century whose voice was recorded.

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TIL: Half of UK Adults Have Irreversible Periodontitis, According to an Evidence-Based Toolkit for Prevention by the UK Government.

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TIL: People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay executioners a little money to let them drink it warm.

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TIL: A family of 12 performers, 7 of whom were dwarves, all survived Auschwitz after being separated by Mengele. Several prisoners who survived claimed they believed they were hallucinating when they saw seven well-dressed dwarves passing by.

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TIL about unisexual mole salamanders - a group of all-female salamanders that use a unique reproductive strategy called kleptogenesis. These salamanders "steal" sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the Ambystoma genus and use it to produce female hybrid offspring.

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TIL that the wealthiest athlete in human history, was an ancient Roman charioteer from what is now Portugal, named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. His combined earnings were the equivalent of fifteen billion dollars.

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