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TIL United States, Myanmar and Liberia are the only countries which have not officially adopted the metric system

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8aj7b TIL that when people in the UK talk about eating “baked beans on toast”, they’re not referring to the US-style baked beans that consist of a brown sugar base. They have a completely different style of baked beans with a tomato base.
yQpaM TIL about Leonid Rogozov, a Soviet surgeon on a 1961 Antarctic research expedition. His appendix went bad during their winter. Since they had no access to the outside world, he had to remove his own appendix almost entirely by touch, with only a novocaine shot. He was back on the job in 2 weeks.
J1aAk TIL Sea Otters use rocks as tools.
WkOOo TIL I learned in 1963 someone in east Berlin escaped to west Berlin by stealing a tank and driving it through the Berlin wall
R7ek6 TIL the shape of a lawn mowers blade creates lift which forces the grass to stick up, making it much easier to be cut by the next blade