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TIL there's a town in the Netherlands that has no roads or cars and everyone travels by foot, bike or canal.

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7rr1M TIL Bill Burr is a licensed helicopter pilot
j6g4j TIL The survival rate in serious aviation accidents is about as high as 95%. Serious accidents are events where the aircraft suffers significant damage, or where people on board are severely injured or killed
YVx TIL that the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty concluded around 1259 BCE is the oldest written treaty that still survives today
OG4Ve TIL that english scientist Henry Cavendish discovered physical laws like Ohm's, Dalton's, or Charles's law and few others as first but they were not named after him because he didn't publish his notes and didn't tell his fellow scientists, propably due to being asocial and shy
VMy8G TIL in 1997 a series of Ponzi schemes run by the Albanian government collapsed. 2/3rds of the citizenry were invested. This lead to mass protests. And the formation of gangs, who took control of entire cities. These gangs siezed weapons from military bases, and started a full blown civil war.