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TIL Finland students have no homework and the highest education rating in the world.

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yVYBX TIL that James Bedford is the first person to have his body cryopreserved in 1967 and it is still in storage.
8w8Z TIL sharks have been around for longer than trees
8agOX TIL about the types of map projections. There is this map projection called AuthaGraph and it is the most accurate 2D map projection in existence (which can also be magically folded into a 3D globe!)
ne7P7 TIL In 1675 in Torsåker parish in Sweden, 71 people were beheaded and burned in a single day. Accused were picked by two boys pointing fingers at people bearing "an invisible mark".
yaZe TIL on October 14th, 1944, doomed death camp prisoners at Sobibór managed to lure numerous high ranking Nazi officers into separate workshops, on the pretext of fitting them with new boots and clothes. They then hacked their defenseless captors to death with various tools and objects, one by one.