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TIL Barysaw, Belarus, is divided by the river into old and new parts connected by two bridges. As usual for this region, families live mostly in flats in large, modern apartment buildings, but there are some single-family homes on the outskirts, some of which do not yet have indoor plumbing

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xVPvw TIL in Nepal, tigers and people have learned to use the exact same forest trails at different times of day to reduce the chances of fatal encounters
RXMj TIL a lighthouse keeper’s cat named Tibbles is said to have single-handedly driven an entire species of wren into extinction, making the bird “the only known species on Earth to be entirely wiped out by a single being”.
5YvX8 TIL that in the Japanese Anime Detective Conan, the voice actor for Detective Wataru Takagi is a voice actor named Wataru Takagi.
rRZvo TIL the Digeridoo was named by the British based on what it sounded like, and was not originally called the Digeridoo. It was used by aboriginals in Australia when it was discovered, and there are lots of aboriginal names for the instrument, such as Yidaki.
rNWrW TIL the smallest number that can be divided by each number between 1 and 10 is 2520.