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TIL in New Zealand you require neither licencing or training to captain a recreational boat.

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nekmG TIL Skyscrapers shrink over time due to building materials compressing. This shrinkage is large enough that elevator guide rails in the highest skyscrapers need to be mounted to sliding clips, instead of attached solidly, so they can move when the building shrinks instead of warping.
b6pPp TIL that the Portuguese custard tarts Pastel De Nata's were created by Catholic Monks to help support their monasteries
4kdg TIL, in 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 townspeople rose up against him, in an act of vigilante justice. No charges were ever filed.
lx07 TIL A meth junkie crawled inside a 3,500 year old Florida tree, the fifth oldest tree, and burnt it down.
WRpL TIL the pressurization of an airplane cabin alters the function of taste buds, causing a decrease of up to 30% in the ability to taste saltiness or sweetness. This is one of the reasons so many people dislike airline food.