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TIL Nepal, a tiny Himalayan nation, contributed almost 200,000 men and £1,000,000 to the British government during WW1

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5YQR9 TIL that the International Astronomical Union names all mountains on Saturn's moon Titan after mountains and characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's works
WAAd TIL that Walt Disney World once had an airport with grooves along the runway that played “When You Wish Upon a Star” when a plane landed on it at 45 mph.
kOawe TIL sharks enter a trance-like state known as tonic immobility when turned upside down. A female orca off the coast of California was observed rolling a Great White over to induce this state and was one of the first cases of predation on a Great White in the wild by anything other than a human.
PYVmE TIL that 2 donkeys that have been together for 10 years at a zoo in Poland were separated after a local politician and parents complained about them mating in front of children. Experts weighted in and a petition to rejoin them got 7,000 signatures so the zoo put them back together.
yVVYp TIL in 1985, Austria got busted for spiking their wines with diethylene glycol, a minor ingredient in antifreeze