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TIL that wasps can build nest of 7 meters long.

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yVkdl TIL that a penguin has achieved the rank of brigadier general in the Norwegian army.
EWb0 TIL that in 2014 the Danish government recreated their entire country in Minecraft. It took 4 trillion blocks to build. However, it was discovered that you could use TNT Minecarts on the server. Almost immediatly people started blowing up towns, and planting american flags and tanks over the ruins.
ljmG TIL in 1909 a 15 year-old boy was accidentally stabbed to death in the insurance office where he worked, trying to evade the birthday kisses of all the office women.
QJGRd TIL If you were condemned to death in a Nazi medical experiment but later resurrected in another Nazi medical experiment you would be "pardoned to concentration camp for life"
oBymE TIL the Bikini swimsuit was introduced by Louis Réard four days after the first nuclear device was detonated over the Bikini Atoll. Réard hoped that his swimsuit's revealing style would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar to the social reaction the nuclear explosion.