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TIL that the annual 72,500 roubles rent that USA payed for the ambassadors house in Moscow was equal to 3 dollars in 2001 post-soviet inflation value. Since the US-Soviet contract didn't provide for currency fluctuations, USA argued that the rent should stay fixed.

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0jVp TIL Antarctica has a fire department. It’s needed because Antarctica is dry, windy, not much water to put out a fire, and death for people without shelter.
5NdP TIL the constitution of the Bhutan specifies that 60% of the country must remain forested.
xVAvk TIL there are Train Ferries, designed to carry railway vehicles. Some allow the trains to roll on and off directly.
7r0nP TIL that the word deer used to refer to all types of animals. This is why languages such as German and Dutch still use the words 'Tier' and 'dier' respectively.
mmNR TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “…Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”