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TIL that Finns weren’t originally considered “white” in the United States, they were linked to Mongols and called “China Swedes” due to not speaking an Indo-European Language

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wL1VJ TIL that when a new IKEA was built in Valladolid, Spain, in 2011, the company held an online poll on how to name the road leading to the store. The majority voted for: "Calle Me falta un tornillo" ("I'm missing a screw Road"), and IKEA and the municipal administration named the road accordingly.
JYMDV TIL that over 25% of irrigated land in the US uses groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer. Since large-scale agricultural extraction began in 1950, its size has been reduced by nearly 10%. Once depleted, it will take 6,000 years for the aquifer to replenish.
yV5gV TIL : Crayfish burrows are made in lawns, called "Mud Chimneys"
kOeke TIL that in 2002 a NASA intern stole a safe full of moon rocks. To celebrate his crime he laid the rocks on a bed and had sex with his girlfriend on top of them.
RLb1 TIL during Winter War, Finnish fighters propped up frozen Soviet soldiers to intimidate Soviet troops