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TIL Sweden boasts the largest number of islands globally, with a staggering count of 267,570 islands.

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PYk9O TIL that traditional Bavarian pretzels are made with lye (sodium hydroxide), the same caustic chemical used to clear drains and dissolve bodies.
groW TIL 20 crew and passengers died in a plane crash when a crocodile, being smuggled by one of the passengers in a sports bag, freed itself and panicked the passengers who all ran towards the flightdeck. The Filair L-410 Turbolet unbalanced and crashed. The crocodile survived.
lowg5 TIL towards the end of WW2 Herman Goering had become so addicted to para-codeine that he was travelling with almost the entire world’s supply
Eymp TIL of the Peter’s Principle, a theory where companies promote people into management on account of performance rather than ability, resulting in incompetent managers and inefficiency.
0d1k5 TIL the nuclear bomb explosion in Terminator 2 was so accurate that the US nuclear team at Sandia Labs sent James Cameron a letter saying it was the "most correct visual representation of the effects of a nuclear weapon ever put on film".