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TIL that there are about two million saunas in Finland, enough for the entire finnish population to take a sauna at the same time

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DQ4Oj TIL The humorist Alphonse Allais was one of the first to make monochromatic paintings. His works include 'First Communion of Anemic Young Girls In The Snow' (1883) and 'Apoplectic Cardinals Harvesting Tomatoes on the Shore of the Red Sea' (1884).
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9KK6 TIL Most alarms and sirens fall into the frequency range 1-3 kHz where the human hearing is the most sensitive, but this frequency range is also a black spot in our sound location abilities.
5EnR TIL that America’s first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a joke, but she won over 60 percent of the vote.