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TIL that the Nobel Prize in physics wasn’t awarded 6 different times, because the committee deemed that no work had been done that was sufficient quality

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5V9VR TIL that north of Castaic, CA, the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 5 cross over for approximately 5 miles making it one of the only places in America where you drive on the left.
QABk TIL German citizens can travel to 177 territories without a visa/visa given on arrival, the most in the world.
KORgw TIL that, in their natural state, olives are almost completely inedible; to combat this 99% of olives are bathed in lye, a powerful corrosive, for several days.
BgrDx TIL a significant part of the local economy of Kinmen County is making high quality chef's knives from the over 1 million artillery shells fired on the island in the 1950s. Shells filled with propaganda leaflets instead of explosives landed whole, leaving tons of high quality steel lying around.