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TIL that Holland has a defensive strategy of submerging the whole country in case of foreign invasion.

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b9R59 TIL that cats lack the ability to taste sweet things, as they're missing the gene for a sweet taste receptor.
kOg4B TIL that the USSR successfully used a 30 kilotons nuclear bomb to put out a burning gas well in Uzbekistan in 1966
9xO6 TIL that when Dr. Seuss was having writer’s block he would retreat to a secret closet containing a collection of hats he would wear for inspiration
A1Nn TIL that Cuba has their own Ubuntu-based operating system.
jNKWa TIL that the normal intelligible outdoor range of the male human voice in still air is 180 m (590 ft 6.6 in). The silbo, the whistled language of the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Canary Island of La Gomera, is intelligible under ideal conditions at 8 km (5 miles).