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TIL that Poland didn’t border any of the countries that it does now in 1989, without changing its borders.

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rNRNe TIL there were several different types of Mammoths. The most known variety, the Wooly Mammoth, was one of the smaller kinds, and were comparable in size to modern elephants, At one time there were Mammoths living from North Africa, across all of Eurasia, and into Central America.
QNxdE TIL binary was inspired by ancient Chinese philosophy, the I-Ching. The same text that provoked Confucius gave Leibniz the insight to develop binary encoding. 64 bits also encapsulates DNA encoding.
Y7OWx TIL about Robert Morris, who went from becoming the richest man in the United States (and Senator), to living in a debtors prison for 3 years.
69vy8 TIL: In 2020, a betta fish was able to victoriously complete Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire on live stream with a control system mapped to his tank. Over 4 months, he completed the game by defeating the final champion and even discovered a game bug along the way.
L4xZ TIL The government of Dubai pays it’s citizens 2 grams of gold for every Kg of weight they lose.