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TIL in countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Iceland, your baby’s name must be on an approved list.

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wLWp8 TIL that the classic movie portrayal of a crowded asteroid belt where the asteroids are only metres apart is inaccurate. In reality the average distance between asteroids is around 965,000 km (600,000 miles) and if you were to fly through it, a collision would be unlikely.
lM1 TIL during the Black Death life expectancy was only 17.33 years
v1x84 TIL prairie dogs can warn others of their species about the type of predator, its direction, and even its color with just a single call.
4XnbJ TIL Screenwriter Shane Black's original title for The Last Boy Scout was Die Hard, but Producer Joel Silver asked if he could use the title for a movie he was working on called Nothing Lasts Forever. Black agreed and Nothing Last Forever became Die Hard and Die Hard became The Last Boy Scout
eGE5 TIL that the Chinese city of Guangzhou had no subway whatsoever 20 years ago. Today, its subway system has 186 stations and is 191 miles/307 km long. It is today the world’s fourth busiest metro system, beating New York’s, London’s, Moscow’s and Paris’ in terms of ridership.