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TIL By law, each person in Switzerland is entitled to a place of shelter underground.

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QJb89 TIL that Anne Frank was in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the same time as two of her pre-war friends. These two friends, Hanneli Goslar and Nanette Blitz, survived the Holocaust and are still alive today.
Y5Qd TIL there is 237,000 tonnes of Arsenic Trioxide frozen in a degrading mine in Yellowknife, enough arsenic to kill the world several times over.
QNNj9 TIL that Dusty Springfield recorded her 1966 megahit "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" in the studio's stairwell because it was the only place the acoustics suited her. Dusty still needed 47 takes before she was satisfied.
PYr0L TIL in France, private DNA paternity testing is illegal, punishable by up to a year in prison and a €15,000 fine.
7GAx TIL that the area that is now the Mediterranean Sea was once dry, but about 5 million years ago the Atlantic Ocean poured through the Strait of Gibraltar at a rate 1000 times that of the Amazon, filling the Mediterranean Sea in about 2 years.