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TIL there’s a small section of the border between Belgium and Germany that’s the world’s most complicated one

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gMdoD TIL there is a term for when you repeat a word so much that you start to lose sense of what the word is and means: Semantic satiation (or semantic saturation)
bOwp TIL it’s Maryland’s 225th birthday. Happy Birthday Maryland!
Lkrj9 TIL bees poop, dropping yellow globs of undigested pollen grains while flying.
7J4b TIL that in winter 2010,terrorists tried to wander in Moscow wearing suicide belts with cellphones wired to their belts. When someone texts, the bomb detonates. An hour before the attack was supposed to be carried, one of the bombers received an automated text thus killing her and failing the plan.
7y5P TIL That Mormons have a worldwide disaster preparedness network with tons of stored food, a supply distribution chain, and backup communications network. When there is no emergency, they give the food away.