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TIL : France has an Algerian skull collection

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78P7L TIL Australia is Moving North at a Rate of 2.7 Inches Per Year, Since 1994 it Has Moved Over 5 Feet
R5Nk1 TIL about the Readymix logo geoglyph, a 3.2 km × 1.6 km (2.0 mi × 0.99 mi) logo carved into the ground in outback Australia in 1965. For a lone time of it was the largest such signage of its kind in the world.
9wZrB TIL that when U.S. General George S. Patton died in late 1945, the French government offered to bury him beside Napoleon in Paris out of gratitude for his role in the liberation of France and western Europe.
rRnow TIL The President of The People's Republic of China was awarded the Key to the City in Muscatine, Iowa. Twice. Once in 1985 and again in 2012.
m1LgR TIL of Guinea-worm disease where a worm is ingested from contaminated water & around a year later the worm exists slowly usually from the leg, leaving disabling the person for 3-10 weeks. Wrapping the worm around a stick induces it to come out with gentle tension but too much tension can kill it.