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TIL there's a 4 gallon aquarium in France that mimics the conditions of an ocean zone that's over a mile under sea level

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XJNP TIL Switzerland accidentally invaded Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein was cool with it.
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w9M8 TIL of Anekantavada, the belief that truth and reality are perceived differently from different points of view, and no single point of view is the complete truth, yet taken together they comprise the complete truth
loyRV TIL of the folk-punk band “This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb”. On three separate occasions, stickers for the band affixed to bicycles resulted in police evacuations and bomb squad responses.
YrAd TIL that Finland celebrates “National Sleepy Head Day”, where the last person to in the house to wake up is thrown into water by the early risers.