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TIL It took 6 months and a cost of £125,000 for Scotland to arrive at new slogan, which was 'Welcome to Scotland'

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Z8PVv TIL of the Narco-Submarine, a partially and/or fully submersible craft used by cartels to smuggle drugs while avoiding radar and sonar
JYW8v TIL there is sea-lice and they are considered the largest biomass on earth!
VMgoD TIL that Archimedes estimated the value of pi with a polygon in a circle in a polygon. He made the diameter of the circle 1, so the circumference was pi. With the circle's diameter, he found the perimeters of the polygons. Therefore, the value of pi (the circle's circumference) is in between them.
m1Pop TIL the first submersible, the USS Turtle, was built in 1775.
X07bj TIL that hot thermal pools have killed more people than bears in Yellowstone National Park. 20 deaths v. 8 deaths.