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TIL that a group of ferrets is called a “business”

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KO9BR TIL In 1940, Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was evacuated to Ottawa Canada. When her child Margaret was born, Canada declared her rooms at the Hospital as extraterritorial so the baby would have Dutch nationality. As thanks, Princess Juliana has given Ottawa 10,000 tulip bulbs every year since.
LQrkP TIL plants convert glucose into starch because starch takes up less space and because glucose is osmotically active (similar to salt), while starch is not
0yBy TIL That Napoleon commissioned the development of a system that would allow his troops to communicate at night in the front lines, which was eventually taught to and perfected by 12 year old student Louis Braille.
yQGrv TIL Due to Iceland's small population of less than 400,000 people, there's an anti-incest app that alerts you if your chatting up someone who you're too closely related to
7rMjM TIL that when Mt. Everest was found to be the tallest mountain on Earth at 29000ft (the estimate at the time), an extra 2 feet were added on top of the number because they feared if it was too round of a number, the public would think they had picked an arbitrary number.