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TIL that, despite being 10 times smaller than California, The Netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of agricultural and food products: In addition, Dutch farms are some of the most water-efficient in the world

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pYYN4 TIL France, saw its own constitutional crisis in 1958, when an attempted military coup was diverted only when the wartime leader Charles de Gaulle handed himself emergency powers to establish a unity government that satisfied both civilian and military leaders.
E19WV TIL Russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski was working on the Synchrotron U-70, the largest Soviet particle accelerator in 1978. A proton beam measuring about 200,000 rads entered his skull, and 300,000 rads when it exited. Due to nerve destruction, the left half of his face was frozen and doesn’t age.
4Xkn6 TIL: Texas has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world?
j8wQ TIL that the town seal of Whitesboro, NY depicts a white settler strangling a native american. In 2009, city officials maintained that “The seal will stay just the way it is.”
LkKRZ TIL in 1911 one of the US House of Representatives members proposed an amendment that would abolish the Senate.