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TIL There are fossilised plants in Greenland under 1.4 km of ice.

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NZ08 TIL the Flemish anthem of Belgium is exceptionally bloody: “He tears, destroys, crushes, covers in blood and mud; And in victory grins over his enemy’s trembling corpse.”
VB410 TIL that sea otters have the densest fur of any animal, with up to a million hairs per square inch. This keeps them warm in freezing waters since they don’t have blubber.
WaMo TIL that rap battles existed long before. “Flyting” was an insult battle practiced even in Medieval England’s courts.
Z8gxB TIL Not walking your dog is a crime in the city of Rome.
awM89 TIL in 1942 a forest guard in India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.