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TIL Sweden has virtually eradicated Salmonella
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TIL There is a stork couple in Croatia, where the male travels 13 500 km each year, for 22 years, to visit his mate.
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TIL of the City of Ghosts, a cemetery in Vietnam with extremely elaborate and grandiose graves, some even come with bathrooms and kitchens
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TIL there's a species of caterpillar, belonging to the Nematocampa genus of moths, that responds to loud noise (e.g. shouting) by enlarging long appendages on its body until fully erect
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TIL: In November 1918 in the Netherlands, Social Democratic Workers' Party leader Pieter Jelles Troelstra, declared a socialist revolution and demanded in a speech before parliament for the government to surrender power. The movement failed from lack of support from even within his own party
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TIL when a liquid is close to a surface significantly hotter than its boiling point, it produces an insulating vapor layer that keeps it hovering above the hot surface. This is called the Leidenfrost effect and visible when water drops hit a hot pan and skid around instead of boiling away instantly.