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TIL: Russia still owns a piece of Europe totally separate and isolated from the rest of Russia.

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LLG9 TIL that in 1964, a man placed himself in a box and had himself air-freighted from London to Australia because he couldn’t afford the airfare. He nearly died of dehydration.
9w4Qm TIL the Bureau of Land Management uses trigger activated sodium cyanide traps to kill coyotes on public lands which inadvertently kill thousands of pets and endangered species every year.
Pgme TIL in Japan many buildings are demolished by being ‘capped’ then deconstructed one level at a time out of view. As a result, the entire structure appears to slowly shrink until it disappears.
pYP8N TIL the Popigai impact structure is the largest created within the last 100 million years, and the shock pressures from the impact instantaneously transformed graphite in the ground into diamonds within a 13.6 km (8.5 mi) radius of the impact point
vgW4 TIL food manufacturers make chip bags noisy in order to subconsciously convince you the chips taste good, “research has shown that if people hear the sound of the packaging crumpling while they’re eating the chips they will think the chips are crisper, crunchier, fresher … better”