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TIL: After the conclusion of the First World War, the French government declared a "Zone Rouge" deemed unfit for human habitation.

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Prye TIL Canada is the most-sued country by corporations in the developed world, with 63% of cases arising from the implementation of environmental protection or resource management. Free trade tribunals often force the country to overturn the offending legislation.
VVxk TIL horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal, have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.
eG9n TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when he first kicked.
vPKEr TIL: The hubble space telescope, the international space station and many other famous spacecraft are technically still inside the earths atmosphere, often by hundreds of miles.
p8eyb TIL The longest recorded time without sleep is 264 hours (11+ days). It is not clear how long humans can survive without sleep. After 3-4 nights you can start to hallucinate.