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TIL a new national park was created at the end of 2019

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6pZY TIL there are 365 beads in a military dog chain and 52 on the small chain, used for captured personal to keep track of the days and weeks.
0dGWp TIL Nurse Violet Jessop survived a collision on the Olympic (1911), the sinking of the Titanic (1912) and the sinking of the Britannic (1916 during WWI)
vPNYx TIL Tectonic plates move roughly at the same rate that your fingernails grow
BM5W TIL that in 1527 189 Swiss guards held off 20,000 Mercenaries so the pope at the time could escape. The pope managed to escape and later hired the 40 guards that survived to be his personal guards.
X0Z6Q TIL that in Chile there is a real town named "Peor es Nada" which translates to “Better than nothing” because the owner saw the place as a "dump" and exclaimed that it's better than nothing.