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TIL: India has its own Titanoboa – a prehistoric giant snake called Vasuki indicus!

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Jxnm TIL the Queen’s coronation dress had emblems of an English Tudor rose, a Scots thistle, a Welsh leek, an Irish shamrock, an Australian wattle, a Canadian maple leaf, a New Zealand fern, South Africa’s protea, an Indian pearly lotus, an Ceylonese opalescent lotus and Pakistan’s wheat, cotton and jute
kOKJd TIL that in 2003, scientists conducted an experiment to determine whether the topography of a Kansas or an IHOP pancake was flatter. Turns out, Kansas is.
XN5r TIL more than 12 billion light years away there is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.
4kEVb TIL that Namibia was the first country in the world to incorporate the protection of the environment into its constitution.
LkoRV TIL in 1898, during the Spanish American war, when the USS Charleston fired upon the island of Guam, the Spanish, unaware that a war was going on, rowed out to the ship and asked for gunpowder in order to return the American “salute”