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TIL Indonesia wants to move the capital to a new city

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1aKgP TIL father's get depressed with pregnancy. More of realization... Pregnancy weights heavily on the father. Makes sense and if I am feeling the weight and mood, cannot fathom what she feels.
xV0eg TIL about Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who among other things, sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat.
mxV6E TIL of Drachten, a town in the Netherlands, where almost all traffic lights and signs have been removed in the town's centre in an effort to improve traffic safety, based on the theory that drivers pay more attention to their surroundings when they cannot rely on strict traffic rules.
pK4p TIL in 2015 people spent more money at restaurants than on groceries for the first time ever according to the United States Commerce Department.
oBlr TIL The Great Lakes consist of only 4 bodies of water. Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are actually geographically and hydraulically a single lake, separated only by name. This actually makes it the world’s larges lake, as opposed to the popularly believed Lake Superior.