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TIL the capital city of the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba is simply named "The Bottom"

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gMywL TIL that an island in the middle of Loch Lomond in Scotland is home to roughly 60 wallabies
MePWa TIL Radio Caledonia was a Nazi run WW2 propaganda station that aired in Scotland 1940-1942. Broadcast from Germany, Goebbels hoped it would turn listening Scots against the English. The message that Scotland would be vastly preferable to "an England run by a war-mongering Churchill" didn't fly,
m5rP TIL Thomas Jefferson wanted the Constitution to be scrapped and re-written every 19 years
BlnL TIL ancient Egyptians had a pregnancy test where potentially pregnant women peed on barley and wheat seeds. Plant growth indicated pregnancy: Barley for boy; wheat for woman. Later tests show urine of pregnant women does cause plant growth 70% of the time, while urine of non-pregnant does not.
VBp4k TIL Sign language has tongue twisters