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TIL 75%- 80% of Japan is made up of mountains, forcing 93% of the population to live in the cities and thus the high population density in its cities.

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Wk0l9 TIL that in 2004 a tour bus carrying the Dave Matthews Band through Chicago drove over a bridge and dumped 800 lbs of human waste into the river below, splashing feces and urine onto tourists who were on a sightseeing cruise underneath the bridge.
kOpQ7 TIL Territory integral to the European Union can be found on five continents thanks to the outermost regions of European nations. There are the European countries, Cyprus is technically in Asia, French Guiana in South America, Guadeloupe in North America, and the Canary Islands in Africa.
Zp4wv TIL because the Speaker of the House of Commons is politically neutral, major political parties in the UK do not field candidates against them and voters in their constituency have limited options compared to other parliamentary constituences
GME1 TIL Cuexcomate, near Puebla, Mexico, was thought to be the world’s smallest volcano at just 43ft tall, but was later found to be an empty cone of an extinct geyser. The Pueblans threw bodies of suicide victims into it & believed that if you lived around it, you were ‘under the rule of the devil.’
wL6N8 TIL scientists have been shining a light billions of times brighter than the sun through rolled-up, burned Roman papyrus fragments in an attempt to decipher the writing