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TIL there’s a Dutch village fully staffed by caregivers in disguise to make dementia patients feel like they’re living a normal life.

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GY5X7 TIL Australian PM Gough Whitlam was removed by a British-American coup for abolishing royal patronage, moving Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement, supporting “zones of peace”, opposing nuclear weapons testing, and threatening to close a CIA espionage base in Australia
X8GQ TIL The father of the modern insurance industry was named If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone
WaA8 TIL when waiters gave mints w/their patrons’ check, their tips increased by 3%. If waiters personally handed 2mints per patron w/check, their tips increased by 14%. Their tips increased by 21% if they handed the mints directly to the patrons w/check, and then came back with more mints later.
d8BW7 TIL that arctic shrews are so territorial that whenever two are placed together in a cage, one will mysteriously die within a few days
Ovx1 TIL that during the Battle of Moscow, despite German forces closing to within 50 kilometers of the city, the Soviet Union still held the annual military parade marking the revolution. Soviet troops who paraded past the Kremlin, then marched directly to the front line and into battle.