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TIL there's an America in the Netherlands and they even have a golf resort.

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pkxZ TIL in 1935, a shark on display in an Australian aquarium vomited up a human arm, there were no tooth marks anywhere and the limb had been cleanly removed with a blade. The investigation resulted in a man shooting himself in the head before leading police boats on a hours-long chase.
aloL TIL: Fiji Water once ran an ad campaign stating “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. The city of Cleaveland responded by testing both Fiji water and their own tap water. They found 6.3 micrograms of arsenic in Fiji water, and none in their own.
kjgm TIL Michael Bublé was fired from the set of The X-Files for stealing a hotdog from craft services.
E1pL0 TIL: More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another's scientist's experiments
9YQ5B TIL about "Old Tom", an Orca that would help whalers kill baleen whales in exchange for the tongues and lips of the kills (the "Law of the Tongue")