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TIL Lake Michigan gets so clear after winter’s ice melts that you can actually see shipwrecks in the depths from the air.

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6EJDW TIL there are over 200 billboards in Sweden that also function as 'bee hotels' with holes drilled in them
GMPN TIL Adolphe Sax (inventor of the saxophone) survived a three story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river - all before the age of nine. His neighbors called him “little Sax, the ghost.”
Me09a TIL: In 1992 Hong Kong, a Mercedes-Benz was stolen every 5 hours. The theft and exporting of luxurious cars to China got so bad that Toyota began advertising in Chinese newspapers; stating that Lexus cars would breakdown after 20,000 miles if Chinese standard Leaded fuel was used. Not one was stolen
d8er9 TIL Nigerians smoke the most marijuana on earth, spending over $15 billion on marijuana annually.
OGVxL TIL for nearly 15 years, the NCAA banned South Carolina from hosting any of their tournaments due to a Confederate Flag being flown at the state capitol.