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TIL that 700.000 bikes were stolen in the Netherlands in one year, at a total financial damage of €404 million (2021).

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yVb4e TIL about Shiniuzhai, a convenience store hanging on a cliff in Hunan, that’s been nicknamed “most inconvenient convenience store” in China
Vo8Q TIL The Universe was mapped and made into a 699MB file. Crafted by ONE Russian programmer.
e8J6 TIL Adolf Hitler had a Nephew who moved to Germany during Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, then fearing ulterior motives he later moved back to the United States and fought on the US side in WWII. He also wrote an article title “Why I hate my uncle” about his relationship with Adolf Hitler.
epkY5 TIL that lightsaber fights have become an official sport in France. As of 2019, it was the first country in the world to recognize it as such.
b9Pjp TIL a team at MIT developed a computer programme called ‘World One’ which predicted that in the year 2020 a series of catastrophic events will begin that will lead to the end of civilisation.