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TIL there are giant hornets in Japan whose venom is potent enough to melt human flesh

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YGx TIL in Germany there exists the Waldkindergarten: preschools held entirely outdoors in a forest, regardless of weather conditions
VMO10 TIL that the National Orchestra of Wales used a "sound box" so deaf people can experience a concert. Through vibrations, it transmits music to people with their hands on it or even lying on top of it. One participant called it "something none of us would ever have thought that we would experience."
8eNrZ TIL of Snooker Plus, a variant of the game which had 2 additional balls. Orange was worth 8 points and purple was worth 10.
b9KXp TIL in 2005, the Smurfs were featured in a UNICEF ad in which their village was bombed by war planes and the Smurfs were shown burned and crushed to death under debris. It only aired after 9 PM to prevent children from seeing it.
eJ4n TIL When Georgia’s Savanah airport attempted to expand a runway in the 1980’s they were not given permission from a family to relocate two graves that lay on the property. The airport paved over the graves and laid two headstones flat with the runway.