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TIL that new coins for 2016 in UK are to feature Shakespeare and Beatrix Potter

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oBnZY TIL the term “100-year flood” doesn’t mean a flood that happens once in a hundred years. It’s actually a flood that has 1% chance of happening within a single year.
95PQ TIL that St Basil’s Cathedral, the famous colorful church in Moscow, was barely saved from destruction under Stalin. Every city planner and architect hired refused to cooperate in the demolition process, and some even served time in the Gulag for so adamantly protecting the church.
BLy TIL that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
epjMJ TIL no time zone has been assigned to the North Pole, so any time can be used as the local time