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TIL Groundhogs and Woodchucks are the same animal

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VMMYZ TIL that aboout 1000 miles east of the EU, within southern Russia, exists the Republic of Kalmykia, the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the most common religion, most people are Kalmyks—descendants of Mongol hordes, and Kalmyk, related to Mongolian, is an official language alongside Russian.
7ryKX TIL That the Russian fire service. Has fire trains. That are permanently manned
Z8ELY TIL Honeybees can learn basic math such as subtraction and addition
VB45Q TIL Albert Einstein wrote a preface to the German edition of Upton Sinclair's 1930 "Mental Radio" book, which explores telepathy and the authors' experiments in psychic communication with his wife. He wrote that the book "deserves the most earnest consideration from psychologists"
M7RDa TIL, baseball’s Seattle Mariners were given their name in a newspaper contest by a man named Roger Szmodis, who no one has been able to track down in the 46 years since