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TIL Russia has a retirement age of 55 for Women and 60 for Men.

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xVja5 TIL On the Island of Svalbard in Norway it is illegal to die. If you're about to die they fly you back to main land norway to die there. This is due to the permafrost on the ground which causes the bodies to be unable to be buried safely.
m1PjR TIL Electron microscopes produce only black and white images. Colour doesn’t exist at that scale, because the things it images are smaller than the wavelength of visible light but false colour as often used
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