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TIL 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in world are just in India.

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dDxQZ TIL that the 'Nuclear Gandhi' bug in Civilization never existed, has been dismissed by the developers and was just a urban legend/mandela effect.
NXaQE TIL that despite their being 9m people in Switzerland, only around 62,000 people speak the Swiss native language of Romansh. The rest of the population speak either German, French or Italian.
QJR5E TIL of an organization in Belgium training giant rats (nicknamed "HeroRATs") to sniff out landmines in countries where explosive remnants of war pose a large threat to communities. The rats are extremely effective, outperforming both metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs.
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