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TIL Holland is a region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands, not a formal name for the country.

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68GW TIL that upon his death, pirate Olivier Levasseur had tossed a cryptogram into a crowd and told them if they could figure out the message, his treasure (now valued at $200,000,000) would be theirs, a treasure that to this day has never been found.
VM0oB TIL it costs more to renounce U.S. Citizenship ($2,350) than applying to gain it ($725). Renouncing citizenship was free before 2010. A fee was imposed due to the increase in recent years.
oPXR TIL literacy in North Korea is defined by the ability to write “Kim Il-Sung”
yVjge TIL that the speed of light was first estimated in the 17th century by Danish astronomer Ole Rømer, not by using any advanced technology, but by observing the motion of Jupiter's moon Io.
ADmVo TIL that Russian scientists managed to grow 32,000-year-old plants from seeds they found encased in ice in Siberia