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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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v1Zkr TIL of an newly discovered organism called Lithoredo abatanica that eats stone and excretes sand. It is a shipworm, a group of burrowing animals known for eating woods and related to clams, but so different from known examples that it is both a new species and genus.
160NO TIL that CPR does not actually save very many lives.
78my7 TIL that Dandelions are edible. I actually ate one today and it tasted like sugar. Can't believe I never knew this.
EOG7 TIL Audie Murphy, WWII highest decorated soldier, stood alone on a burning tank destroyer firing a machine gun at attacking German soldiers and tanks. Wounded and out of ammunition, Murphy climbed off the tank, refused medical attention, and led his men on a successful counterattack.
neGnb TIL that an observatory in Germany is designed to look like R2-D2.