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TIL that Norway’s stave churches, like the 12th-century one in Borgund, were built using cured pinewood, wooden pegs, and interlocking post-and-beam joinery - without nails - and resting on stone foundations to prevent rot.

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x68RB TIL the "Memory of the World (MoW) Programme" is an international initiative launched to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, decay over time and climatic conditions, as well as deliberate destruction
akPZ TIL that two people were born at the Woodstock music festival in 1969.
j66pN TIL that apples can get sunburned and this is what it looks like
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