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TIL that Bir Tawil is the only land on Earth that no country claims. Egypt and Sudan both refuse to take it, because claiming it means giving up a much nicer piece of land. So it just… sits there.

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kOVV1 TIL in New Zealand you require neither licencing or training to captain a recreational boat.
5Yl0r TIL in 2016, a Spanish train conductor requested the company he worked for to send someone to relieve him at the end of his shift. When the company failed to do so, the conductor had the train stop in a village and simply went home, leaving 109 passengers stranded.
LBPp TIL That the Carolina Wolf Spider is the Official State Spider of South Carolina, and that South Carolina is the only U.S. State that recognises a state spider
epQ5 TIL- that a Roman historian and senator named Tacitus wrote a book called Annals in 116 AD. It references Jesus Christ and his death by Pontius Pilate…Scholars generally accept his reference to Jesus as authentic and of historical value.
KbDw TIL that NASA’s Curiosity Rover is not a small vehicle but actually the size of a car!