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TIL that all three Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway and Denmark) are within the 10 least corrupt countries in the world

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QJVLk TIL that bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest. It’s difficult for most insects and birds to fly at extremely high altitudes where the air is thin and oxygen is scarce but researchers were able to track some bumblebees that were able to fly at more than 9000 metres.
y0Me TIL that when a priest asked Voltaire to renounce Satan, Voltaire’s last words were “Now is not the time for making new enemies”.
kJYoB TIL about Operation Popeye, where the US attempted to weaponize the weather during the Vietnam War by extending the monsoon season to disrupt North Vietnam's logistics
boaE TIL Stalin hated his son Yakov so much that when he failed to commit suicide by shooting himself Stalin only commented “He can’t even shoot straight.” During the war he was captured by the Germans and Stalin refused to trade any soldiers to bring him back
RXej TIL of Nyarri Morgan, an Australian aboriginal man who had no contact with the Western world until he witnessed - with no context - an atomic test and its resulting effects