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TIL India is more densely populated than Japan.

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KO9NG TIL In 1955, Burma-Shave ran a promotion for a free trip to Mars if someone sent in 900 empty bottles of their product. It was intended to be a joke, but when a man from Wisconsin duly sent in 900 bottles, they scrambled to honour the promotion; sending him to Moers, Germany.
x6KKg TIL in 2022, BMW offered subscriptions for customers in the U.K. that would enable them to use their car's heated front seats (£15 per month) or heated steering wheel (£10 per month).
16b0r TIL The fuel tanks of a Boeing 747 are in its wings. And it can carry over 50k gallons of it.
rR86o TIL a Parrot got an award for warning a mother that her toddler was choking, by repeatedly yelling "Mama, baby" and flapped his wings
vPaED TIL, Rovaniemi's buildings 90% destroyed during WWII. When the city was rebuilt, the new city plan was designed by Alvar Aalto architect, who planned the city's footprint in the shape of a reindeer's head, with the city roads forming the antlers, and the local sports stadium as the reindeer's eye.