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TIL in Finland, the word ‘kalsarikännit’ means to get drunk at home, alone, in your underwear.

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X6KE TIL there is more gold in the Earth than silver, mercury, iodine, and uranium combined.
rOXM TIL The earliest surviving aerial photograph is of Boston’s North End in 1860, taken from a hot air balloon. The photograph is titled ‘Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It.’
5Y7ap TIL that blue whale's heart beats at 8/10 bpm and is about 1.5 meters long, 1 meters wide, and 1.5 meters tall. It weighs about 180 kg and its heartbeat can be heard from over 2 miles away
DQkxj TIL there is only one species of freshwater jellyfish native to North America (Craspedacusta sowerbii). They are harmless to humans.
m1O9Y TIL about the doorway effect a known psychological event where a person's short-term memory declines when passing through a doorway moving from one location to another when it would not if they had remained in the same place.