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TIL that Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” is so famous that only the bible has been printed in more languages.

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WkZ9o TIL City water supplies in Minneapolis, USA and Warsaw, Poland use a "bio-monitoring system." Consisting of clams and mussels that alert them to pollutants via text message or switches. When the clams close, a spring glued to their head completes a switch and alerts the operators in Warsaw.
bkNE TIL there is a fish that when eaten causes severe hallucinations lasting up to 36 hours. It was a party drug during the Roman Empire!
awmK9 TIL about the Arbëreshë people, an ethnic albanian minority in Italy who came escaping the Ottoman conquest of Albania between 700 and 300 years ago
78WQX TIL that rainwater is almost never pure and that in some areas the individual raindrops form around airborne bacteria.
jBkM TIL that a male bee has no father and cannot have sons, but he has a grandfather and can have grandsons.