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TIL Russia is so large that it shares a border with 14 countries and has 11 time zones.

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pN8O TIL of Hero Rats: African giant pouched rats can be trained to sniff out both mines and tuberculosis. They are too light to set off mines and can perform a day’s worth of human TB scanning in seven minutes.
xVwQ5 TIL the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope was held for ransom while being shipped to Hawaii. The US Coast Guard retook the telescope under a writ of 'piracy on the high seas'.
XGYk TIL Despite being the face of anti-establishment. Guy Fawkes was a religious extremist, who tried to overthrow the king to establish a Catholic monarchy.
AZEB TIL the store is called “Safeway” because they did not offer credit as a way of purchase so that families couldn’t get into debt buying groceries. A common occurrence in Great Depression America.
QNP5e TIL broad-snouted caimans are able to gain nutrition from soy protein. American alligators have also been shown to be able to gain nutrition from soy protein.