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TIL More than 55% of the Dutch people live outside of the Netherlands.

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KOblE TIL that in 1995, Isaac Asimov received a letter congratulating him on an accidental prediction of alpha-particle RAM errors in one of his 1950s novel “Caves of Steel”.
pMgO TIL In the 1820s, the biggest department of the US Government, even outnumbering war personnel, was the Post Office.
p8X04 TIL that a micro-animal known as Tardigrade has survived all five mass extinction events.It can live in boiling water, solid ice and endure the intense radiation of space.It can survive a decade in a desert without a drop of water to drink as well as in the deepest trenches of the sea.
7n5L TIL that the roman emperor Claudius’s love life was considered unusual at the time, because he only liked women, not men.
6yxm TIL that the U.S. Army has a list of approved laundry detergents. These detergents do not contain optical whiting compounds, which would cause laundered uniforms to glow in UV light, and stick out in night-vision imaging.