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TIL that the population of Ireland still hasn’t returned to where it was before the Potato Famine

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gan7 TIL there are more bikes than people in the Netherlands, and that their cities are planned to accomodate to bikes rather than cars
XNWD TIL in 2016 when the UK voted on Boaty McBoatface as the name for a research vessel, almost 7000 people voted for a different name: “RRS I Like Big Boats & I Cannot Lie”.
Br98k TIL that Segway Inc., the company that originally produced "the Segway", a two-wheeled vehicle once hailed as the future of personal transportation, permanently stopped producing the Segway in 2020.
xVaDB TIL the makers of the "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say "It's All Pink on the inside!"
VB54B TIL that one of the many ways it seems that Alexander the Great grieved his Hephaestion was by creating a cult dedicated in his honor, complete with followers, shrines, art, sacrifices, altars and temples. His cult even seems to have eclipsed the Athenians native Greek gods in worship.