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TIL London only reached its pre-WW2 population level in January, 2015.

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xV1W1 TIL that after John Muir recovered from temporary blindness,caused by a factory accident that shot a piece of metal into his eye, he dedicated his life to the environment and help established Yosemite, Sequoia, Mount Rainer, and the Grand Canyon as National Parks.
vneK TIL - Netherlands has a plan where flooding the country could be used as a defence strategy and this can easily be done by destroying various flood defences in case of attack by a foreign country.
VBorZ TIL cats and goats are among the most invasive species in the world
BgL8r TIL That There's An Uno Championship Tournament
N7W4b TIL that Charlotte Brontë, who wrote "Jane Eyre", died while pregnant, of extreme morning sickness (hyperemisis gravidarum).