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TIL that Bhutan is the only country in the world that by its own constitution protects its forests, and the country measures progress not through its Gross Domestic Product but through "Gross National Happiness."

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bX7p TIL In 2010, the US Congress passed a bill that allows those that file for bankruptcy to exempt their guns from their estate. Meaning if you go bankrupt, they can take everything you own, except your guns.
47DX TIL France owns a small island off the coast of Newfoundland that is entirely comprised of rock (St. Pierre). The streets are carved into the rock, and instead of cemeteries, inhabitants carved tombs into the island which are there to this day.
1e44 TIL that the London underground has evolved its own species of mosquito
0w1yN TIL Virgin Media tasked 10 staff working around the clock to find 1 voicemail recording of an OAP's late wife, as he had lost it due to the system upgrade.
oRwML TIL German chocolate cake was invented in Texas