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x6Z8o TIL In Mongolia, instead of a street address, a three-word phrase is used for each nine-square-meter plot of land. It is used because of the nomadic lifestyle in the country and there are less street names. Mongolia Post partnered with a British startup What3Words to make this happen.
e0YW4 TIL of the Kengir Gulag Uprising, where inmates assumed control over a camp. Due to the large body of educated inmates the 40 days of freedom saw the creation of plays, an ex-noble organizing a café, priests organizing marriages, engineers creating improvised radios and a hydroelectric powerstation
lo9J5 TIL The Royal Canadian Air Force is the sixth largest in the Americas. After the US Air Force, US Navy, US Army, US Marine Corps, and the Brazilian Air Force.
gMOm9 TIL deodorant was first sold in the 1900s and didn’t become popular until advertising agencies convinced consumers that body odor was bad.
xbao TIL the average American child eats 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school.