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TIL that most American’s don’t have electric kettles in their kitchens to boil water.

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QNNKM TIL That Vatican City is an absolute theocratic elective monarchy, meaning it's technically three types of government.
9RZX TIL that the British exclusively swam breaststroke in competition until the 19th century. In 1844, a Native American came to London and won a competition swimming front crawl (freestyle), a stroke never seen by the Western world, who then regarded it as “un-European”.
nWnjG TIL a series of US explosion tests by was performed in 1965 near Hawaii using 450t of explosives. 92,022 blocks of TNT were stacked in domes to simulate the shock effects of nuclear blasts without the radiation.
VBYxD TIL France has detonated nearly 200 nuclear bombs in the South Pacific, the last of which was in 1996
KORJR TIL: In 2019 A Well Preserved Pleistocene Wolf Head and a Frozen Cave Lion Cub were Found by a Team in Siberia