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TIL the first lottery ever was held in 1441 in Bruges, Belgium

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D1NEJ TIL Norway leads the world in commercial whaling, hunting hundreds more than Japan per year despite its much smaller population.
9YPXG TIL that at the Hoover dam construction the first worker death was that of J. G. Tierney and the last death was that of his son Patrick Tierney which came 14 years after the death of his father
YpmaA TIL Entomophagy refers to insect-eating. Roughly 2 billion people (over 25% of the world's population) regularly eat insects as part of their diet. Despite being inexpensive, eco-friendly, and high in protein, the West is the only region where insects are not eaten.
bZx0 TIL nukes can have their yield ‘dialed’ or adjusted up or down, from city-buster to tiny puff of single kiloton smoke, while in the silo or even in flight.
QJO5E TIL that the first scientific paper on the greenhouse effect was published in 1856 by a female scientist, Eunice Newton Foote