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TIL Liechtenstein’s only lake is less than 100 years old, created by a flood of the Rhine

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X0Z4j TIL: In order to perform a Ushi no toki Mairi curse, the practitioner wears white and tall clogs, dons an iron crown with 3 candles, suspends a mirror from their chest, then nails an effigy of her target to a tree between 1-3am. In Japanese law it is a textbook example of "impossibility defense".
d8JQB TIL Nintendo started as a Card Company in 1889 and launched Hanafuda Cards and these cards were actually used in Japan as a replacement of Gambling Cards as they were banned by Japanese Government
NXXJJ TIL that the first Submarine was used in the Revolutionary War and was called “The Turtle”.
4XON6 TIL that "Xmas" is not an attempt to remove "Christ" from "Christmas", but rather a shortening to the Greek letter chi, which is the first letter in the Greek spelling of Christ.
7xwP TIL that the oldest living tree is 4,765 years old and lives in a secret location.