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TIL in the past century, every year at least one Belgian has died from World War 1 or World War 2 ordinance being accidentally detonated

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D1knr TIL: Mark Zuckerberg bought a $2.5 million car, but he makes that money back in under 2 minutes.
YLdG TIL in 1946, during a land survey of Sichuan province in China, a forester encountered a tree he’d never seen before, so took a sample. He came to find it was as yet unknown to science, only previously existing as a fossil. It came to be known as the ‘Dawn Redwood’.
M7yg8 TIL that sperm whales can generate sounds up to 230 decibels - far beyond the fatality threshold for humans.
oRN0W TIL about anti ninja floors in Japan. They were purposefully made to squeak as to alert people of intruders.
9Y0Op TIL About Memphis' Martyrs Park, a city park built around a mass grave of the victims of the city's 1878 yellow fever epidemic and honoring the brave individuals who stayed behind despite great risk to care for the sick and bury the dead.