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TIL that the Channel Tunnel, a rail tunnel with the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, has full mobile phone coverage.

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QJAX TIL that the HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA video is a part of a longer video, and that the actual video only has 315,000 views, while the version with just the song has over 20 million, and the version that’s a 5-hour loop has over 9 million.
grlg9 TIL a bronze sword that's more than 3,000 years old was unearthed in Bavaria last year with a state of preservation so "extraordinary" that it "almost still shines."
nkAo TIL: Back in 2009, a police officer pulled over a man (who was rushing his ailing mother to the hospital) for expired tags, and refused to let him take her. She died. He got 1 day suspension.
oB9lo TIL Ines Ramirez Perez is the only woman to successfully do a self C-section. Alone in her house with no medical facility near Perez took several swigs of hard liqour and cut into herself using a 6-inch blade.
R7k71 TIL Power lines look like terrifying bursts of light to animals that perceive UV light.