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TIL that your heart can grow new vessels in response to greater blood flow, due to exercise

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E18Jx TIL that a Danish artist is hiding enormous troll statues made with recycled materials in Belgian forests
4jgJ TIL the strongest man in history was from Canada.
ADLgo TIL of Huberta, a South-African hippopotamus who set off in 1928 on 1600km journey over three years where she attracted crowds, became revered and was eventually declared royal game.
Nnb1 TIL When the Kurds revolted against British rule in the 1920’s, Winston Churchill said; “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilized tribes… it would spread a lively terror.” Decades later, Saddam Hussein did what Churchill advocated (Poison Gas Attack on Halabja, 1988).
p8onO TIL: In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for about 2 cents per acre