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TIL that Croatia had one colonial territory in India

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mR5O TIL an Australian man wearing a nylon jacket and wool shirt built up 40,000 volts of static electricity, resulting in burned carpets, melted plastic, and a massive evacuation.
RBXj TIL that a QR code on a Heinz ketchup bottle once took people to a porn site.
4Xkro A painting that went for $60 in 1958 sold for a record $450 million at a Christie’s auction in November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a painting. That’s because the piece—known as Salvator Mundi, or “Savior of the World”—was identified as a work by Leonardo da Vinci in 2011. Painted around the same time as the Mona Lisa, it is one of fewer than 20 known paintings by the Renaissance master.
E1Y1x TIL In 80 years, the world's phosphorus reserves are expected to run out. This will make fertilizer increasingly harder to produce, thus reducing the world's global food supply if nothing is done to reduce the use of phosphorus.
aNX9 TIL that the city of Huescar forgot they were at war with Denmark until a local historian found the declaration 172 years later. No shots were fired during the war.