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TIL if you can prove you had an ancestor that was Luxembourgish as of 1st of January 1900, you can get citizenship without ever having set foot in the country.

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16WRV TIL the actress who portrays ‘Flo’ in advertisements for the insurance company Progressive is Stephanie Courtney
Y8ar TIL when trees evolved, it took 60 mil. years for fungi to evolve the ability to break down lignin. Trees fell over and didn’t decompose, storing vast amounts of carbon, resulting in an oxygen-rich atmosphere that favored enormous insects; burning in massive fires; and producing our stores of coal.
M7xab TIL that Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died of a heart attack just several hours after signing the Tashkent Declaration ending the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War. Conspiracy theories around his death have swirled ever since.
rNY1W TIL 536 was truly the ‘worst’ year to be alive
Wj8Y TIL A man bought a shipping container for $400 and found a $2,000,000 Canadian warship engine inside.