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TIL, India has become the first country in the world to develop and airdrop a portable hospital
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TIL there's a city in Alaska called "Unalaska". It comes from the Unangan term "Ounalashka" which means "near the peninsula".
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TIL the tale of Budj Bim, an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano, is the oldest story still told today
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TIL that Genetics account for up to 65 percent of tooth decay or other dental predispositions.
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TIL that in addition to there being cardinal numbers (1, 2, 3) and ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd), there are also cardinal directions (N/E/W/S) and ordinal directions (NE/SE/NW/SW).
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TIL Germany was made the hosts of the 2006 FIFA worldcup after the editor-in-chief for the satire tabloid "Titanic" sent a fax to one of the representatives voting on the matter with promises of a gift basket worth ~20 USD if he voted for Germany.
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TIL that the Tennessee State code has no laws prohibiting passengers in motor vehicles from consuming alcoholic beverages.
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TIL there are towns in Pennsylvania named Paradise, Fertility, Blue Ball, and Intercourse
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TIL that the urine of postmenopausal women was used as infertility treatment (menotropins) since they contained higher quantities of specific hormones.
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TIL during the Napoleonic Wars a French ship sank near the English town of Hartlepool, the only survivor being a pet monkey. Allegedly, the townsfolk had never seen a Frenchman before and so tried and hanged the monkey, thinking it was a French spy.
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TIL that due to the way 1912-era wireless telegraphs worked, when they found obscure second-class Titanic passenger Niqula Nasrallah’s remains the press briefly believed they were those of internationally famous millionaire John Jacob Astor, who’d been in first class.
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TIL the Treasury Dept. official in charge of the money laundering investigation of Sothebys, and the hi-value art market, was named Scott Rembrandt.