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TIL shooting stars (meteors) can often times be as small as a grain of sand

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4kAVa TIL that there is a role in system of Bosnia and Herzegovina that has the power to remove public officials from office and pass laws, although it's exclusively held by foreigners
QJNnd TIL about the Tacoma Narrows bridge, 3rd largest suspension bridge in the US, which collapsed violently in 1940
wAE7 TIL when an elderly hiker was pounced on by a mountain lion that began to tear at his arm, a nearby bear rushed over and attacked the lion, driving it away and saving his life.
RRQw TIL if you walk outside George Orwell’s old house in London you are now captured on surveillance cameras 33 times.
0wmNM TIL At the end of WW2 30,000 copies of Munro Leaf's 'The Story of Ferdinand' were given out to German children in order to encourage peace. It had previously been banned under Hitler.