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TIL in 1998, an entire North Korean submarine and her crew was lost to a single South Korean fishing net

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0dk61 Today I learned about the Swedish million apartments programme. The Swedish government of 1965 pledged to build 1 million new apartments in a country of 8 million people in 10 years. 1006000 apartments was built.
W7RR8 TIL 40% of white medical trainees believed black people having thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings in a 2016 survey
A8Ya TIL a Texas man who was bitten on the hand by a coral snake bit the animal’s head off, then used its skin as a tourniquet–a move that saved his life. He kept the head as a keepsake.
e0w6J TIL that before 2017 the highest timed speed on a public road was set in 1938 by a Mercedes-Benz, reaching a speed of 433 km/h.
OG40L TIL Crows can remember a dangerous human and share informations about them to other crows