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TIL that Copenhagen's only ski hill, CopenHill, was built on top of one of the world's cleanest waste incineration plants

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maXv TIL Antarctica is actually just a cluster of islands under the ice
j6wkN TIL that authorship of the Christian poem “Footprints” is contested, is claimed by at least a dozen people, and has been the subject of lawsuits.
JZjk TIL Killer Whales are able to learn to speak Dolphin. When killer whales were socialized with bottlenose dolphins at a water facility, they changed the types of sounds they made to resemble those of their social partners
W7gLX TIL in 1977 East Germany and Vietnam entered an agreement: in exchange for technical assistance and expertise in the project, Vietnam would plant coffee and provide East Germany with half the crop. By the time the trees were mature enough for harvest, East Germany collapsed.
rol1 TIL having an O blood type makes you twice as likely to attract mosquitoes than people with A blood type. B blood types fall in the middle of the spectrum.