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TIL Australia has 10,685 beaches. If you visited one beach per day, it would take you more than 32 years to see them all.

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epjyk TIL that in the late 1600s Emperor K'ang Hsi, who had survived smallpox as a child, had his children inoculated. That method involved grinding up smallpox scabs and blowing the matter into nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into the skin.
KYVRG TIL that only three countries outside of Europe and South America reached the FIFA world cup semi-finals: the United States in 1930, South Korea in 2002, and Morocco in 2022
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