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TIL about Helsinki's 'underground city' in Finland. It is composed of +5.000 underground bunkers carved into the bedrock. It can house up to 900,000 people in case of a nuclear attack on the capital.

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gpN9 TIL that during World War 2, the US briefly renamed Hamburgers to “Liberty Steaks”. As Hamburgers sounded too German.
v1kRx TIL the pygmy marmoset can can leap 15 feet into the air despite being just 5 inches, that is about 36 times it's own height. Equivalent to a 6 ft human jumping 216 feet into the air.
69888 TIL Vice President Thomas R. Marshall offered Calvin Coolidge his "sincere condolences" upon hearing that Coolidge was elected Vice President
OGQG7 TIL for-profit bail only exists in 2 countries (US and Philippines). Elsewhere, paying money to leave pretrial detention is considered "a debt trap for poor defendants."
KO4a9 TIL about Estevanico, or Mustafa Azemmouri, an enslaved Muslim of Moroccan origin who became the first African to explore North America when, following a shipwreck off Galveston Island, he walked from Texas to Sinaloa in the 1530s