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TIL in ‘92, a ship from China lost 29,000 rubber ducks in the Pacific Ocean. After some washed ashore in Alaska, oceanographers started tracking their progress to learn about ocean currents. Ducks were found in Asia, Australia, the Americas, even Europe. Some were frozen in the Arctic for 15 years.

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Brx6D TIL that anybody, dead or alive, travelling into France requires a passport. In 1974, The Egyptian government had to issue a passport to Pharaoh, Ramesses II to transport his body to France for restoration. Eerily, his body also received full military honours when it arrived at the Paris airport.
wdLM TIL there is a school in Moscow whose mission is to enable Russian women to snag rich husbands. Part of the curriculum includes “strengthening and toning the muscles using special equipment — a kind of gym for the vagina.”
yQn7w TIL That Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually quite pro-American and wrote a letter in 1896 advocating for a formal US-UK alliance.
kJxD1 TIL North Carolina has the 3rd highest euthanasia rate in the USA
yQVJ8 TIL that judges deliver significantly harsher verdicts when they’re hungry