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TIL Wearing ties was introduced by the Croats but then adopted by the French

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VppZ TIL there’s a shotgun shell that plants flowers.
jNXVE TIL about the fact that snakes do turn out to be more social than previously believed and apparently have more complex social interactions than we had previously known.
v1b97 TIL there is a graveyard orbit of satellites many kilometers above the usual geosynchronous orbit
nWo9Y TIL that Gutzon Borglum, the designer and sculptor for Mount Rushmore, was later commissioned to create a statue of Woodrow Wilson in Poznań, Poland. The statue was destroyed in 1945 when the Soviets and Germans fought for control of the city.
exDE TIL There is an old soviet scientific research hut buried 20 ft. under snow in one of the most inaccessible places in Antarctica. If you can make it in the hut there is a visitors book you can sign.