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TIL about Llívia, a town in a Spanish exclave surrounded by France. Because of a technicality in a treaty signed in 1659, that transferred only "villages" in the Pyrenees to France, Llívia, which was a "town", remains under Spanish control.

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E1Q80 TIL the Black Footed Cat of South Africa is the smallest cat in the world weighing in at around 4lbs, yet is the deadliest cat on earth. This tiny, and by some accounts adorable kitty is capable of traveling 20 miles in a night and has a take down/kill accuracy of around 60%.
JYXw4 TIL fire will burn in a spherical shape In microgravity environments, like space, because without gravity oxygen diffuses with random oxygen molecules drifting into the fire. Absent the upward flow of hot air, fires in microgravity will stay spherical and small
WkQa4 TIL that the Count in Sesame Street does not count all the time to teach children numbers! In folklore, vampires had arithmomania, or an obsession with numbers. This derives from the old superstition that throwing poppy seeds on the ground stopped vampires because they had to count them all first.
gMNaL TIL that in 2012, 10 year old Clara Lazen accidentally invented a new type of molecule called Tetranitratoxycarbon, they found out when she assembled carbon, oxygen and nitrogen atoms in a random way on a model. The teacher passed it on to a friend, and it was new. In the paper, she was credited.
MkYV TIL that the voice of Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen, also voiced Eeyore.