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TIL France and Spain have a timeshare called Pheasant Island. They alternate ownership every six months.

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8yYZ TIL Canada has limits on how many coins you can use in a payment until the coins are no longer considered legal tender. (ex: Limit of $25 in $1 coins, $40 in $2 coins)
epnAD TIL radiation exposures during the Chernobyl disaster were as high as 16 Sv (sieverts), three times the lethal LD50 dose of 4.8 Sv. A human near a breach of the ITER fusion reactor's containment vessel would be exposed to 2000 Sv every second.
rNyrM TIL: Just last year in 2023 , the Great Kentucky Hoard was found, adding proof to the age old claims of lost Civil War gold caches. It consisted of verified 800 Civil War coins most of them gold. The person who discovered it hid his identity and where exactly he unearthed them.
D1kde TIL of the Alpheidae AKA pistol shrimp, that is one of the loudest animal in the sea and produces a bubble that when collapses reaches temperatures of over 7,700 °C
rR4j0 TIL that “Don’t Mess with Texas” began as an anti-littering campaign