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TIL: Snails have Teeth - Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk As Nature’s Strongest Material

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ZpeJQ TIL there was once a "Hamburger Bank"
j6Loj TIL that Los del Rio, the duo responsible for the worldwide 1995 hit “Macarena,” was formed in 1962. The band had released 18 albums prior to their hit single, and the members were in their mid 50s when it came out.
NoMP TIL in 1965 a young American tourist illegally crossed the Norwegian-Soviet border, walked up to a Soviet border post and demanded the guards stamp his passport. He was arrested, sentenced to a detention camp and died on the train there.
69Q1Q TIL about Kaktovik numerals, a base-20 number system based on a on Inupiaq language, and created by a class of middle students
xVg47 TIL Bhutan, Wales, and Malta are the only countries the world whose flags have dragons on them.