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TIL Belgium went 541 days without a government

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ZJeG TIL a Brisbane golf course became infested with sharks after a river broke its banks and flooded the area. The sharks became stranded when the water receded, but now are thriving and even breeding.
4k8lg TIL that up until a few years ago, most access routes to Switzerland, like bridges and tunnels and border crossings, were loaded with explosives to prevent an invasion into the country.
wLXnM TIL Leif Erikson Day is an actual day, it is observed October 9th. It honors Leif Erikson the Norse explorer who led the first Europeans thought to have set foot in continental North America.
0d95A TIL the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates there are around 150,000 licenses for radioactive sources and around 1 source per day is either lost or stolen.
691PY TIL about Hanns Scharff, a German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War who is considered the "father of modern interrogation techniques". After the war he became a famous mosaic artisan who amongt other things created the 15-foot arched cinderella mosaic walls in Disneyland