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TIL Google Maps is so advanced it lists planned roads that do not yet exist.

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DNYJ TIL Sweden has almost zero child fatalities in car crashes because most parents keep children rear facing until age 4
N7jW8 TIL In the U.S, the different colors of twist ties on the bread bags indicate what day of the week the bread was baked.
8KrV TIL that in Finland, nine out of ten plastic soft drink bottles are returned for re-use. Almost one hundred percent of all glass bottles are recycled – more than anywhere else in the world.
7rrWZ TIL the wreck of the Titanic is so deep in the ocean that there's very little oxygen so it doesnt really rust. Instead it is being slowly consumed by anaerobic bacteria (a kind that doesn't need oxygen to live). Within a few hundred years, a pile of iron ore will be all that remains of the titanic.
ne0wb TIL Chris Columbus, director of the first and second Harry Potter films, planned for his adaptation of the fourth book to have 4-5 hrs of footage split into 2 films - one released Thanksgiving, the other on Christmas