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TIL the first recreational ski club in the world was formed in the gold mining town of Kiandra in the Australian Alps in 1861.

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R5dZj TIL that the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba 🇦🇼, Bonaire 🇧🇶 & Curaçao 🇨🇼 speak a Portuguese-based Creole with heavy Spanish influence called Papiamento as their main & most spoken language, with 400.000 total speakers. Dutch is a 2nd or 3rd language for most locals.
pdae TIL there is a group of women who were the last to be born into China’s foot binding culture, residing in a small village in the Yunnan province. In their 80’s and 90’s, they tell their stories so we will not forget them.
rNaex TIL Astrophysicist Jonathan Lane was the first to demonstrate with math that the Sun is a body of gas, in his 1870 book "On the Theoretical Temperature of the Sun". Lane’s law states that as a gaseous body contracts, the contraction generates heat
rvde TIL of the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident, where a human error caused a decompression chamber to go from 9 atmospheres of pressure to 1 in less than a second. Out of the 5 dead, one was ripped apart so violently pieces of him were found over 30 feet away.
pYGp TIL that in Denmark, there is an old law which has never been revoked stating: “If the sea between Denmark and Sweeden freezes, you are allowed to hit the Swedes with a stick”