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TIL Donald Trump tried to stop the building of an offshore wind-farm in Scotland because it would “ruin the view” of his golf course.

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d8d7Z TIL New Zealand has a very high rate of teen suicide and in 2017 had the highest rate of any wealthy country in the world.
78bE7 TIL that the Aztecs, who lived on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco, would consume a particular type of fly as a staple high protein food source. The water fly, called ahuautle, was eaten in tortillas, toasted, and mashed into baked cakes.
4k6yo TIL that nerves can be grafted and spliced like wires, fixing damage to muscle control or pain
R7EKj TIL that up until the mid twentieth century in China, coins produced during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127CE) were unofficially used as currency.
bo0E TIL that the data gathered from Nazi freezing experiments on people, is the definitive data on how the body reacts to freezing temperatures.