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TIL - Belgium went 589 days without a government

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75YP TIL the Ginkgo tree is considered a living fossil, remaining unchanged for over 200 million years.
j6ZXv TIL that the UK’s coins each have a part of the Royal Shield on the back, and if they’re arranged correctly the whole shield can be seen.
W7NXd TIL An oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur, Louisiana accidentally punctured a salt dome, creating a sinkhole that swallowed barges and caused the Delcambre Canal to flow backwards.
dK88 TIL Danish queen Margrethe II drew illustrations for the “Lord of the Rings”, J.R.R. Tolkien was pleased enough s.t. she became an “official Tolkien artist” responsible for the Danish edition of 1977
7yJr TIL the crew of a US destroyer threw potatoes at a surfaced Japanese submarine that was too close to attack. This distracted the submarine’s crew, allowing the destroyer to steam far enough away to shoot the submarine and sink it.