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TIL Netherlands has more population density than India

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WLE8 TIL The “Portland Vase”, a wonder of ancient glass work crafted when Augustus Caesar ruled the Roman Empire, was broken in 1845 by a drunken visitor to the British Museum when he threw a sculpture at it.
EnMw TIL Mangoes enhance a marijuana high, allowing you to get ‘higher’ more effectively.
BVOx TIL that frogs don’t have the ability to swallow, so to get food down their throat, they do ‘the blink’: whereby their eyes sink back in their head and push the food down.
e0Mvg TIL The minimum sound threshold a human ear drum can detect is 1x10^-12 watts/square meter. To put in perspective just how sensitive the human ear is we could scale up, so in order to detect a minimum of 1 newton (0.2 pounds) of force, an ear drum would be roughly the entire surface area of England.
jN98p TIL that the model for Snow White in the 1937 film is still alive today