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TIL That in 2011 sea levels around the world dropped by almost a cm due to massive rainfalls across Australia.

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wZ5P TIL after WW1 the French had the railway cars that Germany surrender in stored in a museum. During WW2 when France was preparing to surrender, Hitler ordered the walls of museum torn down and the railway cars returned to the exact spot of the 1918 armistice in order to humiliate the French.
OoLJL TIL The rumors about Tesla using Colbalt from child labor is false. They use no Colbalt since 2018, and the least of any lithium battery manufacturer.
kMoB China is the most irreligious country on Earth. As of 2012, a whopping 87.4% of residents claim no interest or relevance in religion whatsoever.
m1lDx TIL the very first case where John E Reid used his interrogation methods, which is widely used throughout North America today, got a false confession from a suspect for murder. Which later cost the state of Nebraska $500,000 after the real killer confessed.
ja4v TIL when 50 deaf Nicaraguan children, who didn’t know sign language, were put in a school together they developed their own sign language. Scientists are still studying the unique spontaneous appearance of language and its ongoing development and introduction of grammar.