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TIL that Germany has one of the lowest Home Ownership rates in Europe at 51.5% as of 2018

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e0nK6 TIL of a man by the name of Gerald Foo who bought a motel and built viewing panels into the ceiling of the rooms to conduct in-depth sexual research from the attic for 30 years.
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J1bAl TIL in 1951, Clint Eastwood was on a military plane when its oxygen, navigation, and communications systems failed. As the fuel ran out, they crashed into the ocean off Point Reyes. Eastwood and the pilot survived, rowing through the dark on a life raft to a lighthouse, and were rescued.
KOVNJ TIL about the Mary River punk-haired turtle
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