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TIL that Denmark hosts the largest 4th of July celebration outside of the US

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Wk9rd TIL: Nitrous oxide has been used as a recreational drug since the late 1700s, when laughing gas parties were held. This use led to the discovery of anaesthesia.
R7pV7 TIL that if you're seated in the rear of a modern jumbo jet, the walk to your seat is longer than the Wright Brothers' 120 ft first flight.
V4AZ TIL Richard Kruspe, one of the members of the Band Rammstein, was an escapee from East Germany.
YkeA TIL there is a culture deemed unstudiable by some anthropologists for leading such uninteresting and mundane lives, focused upon work, frowning upon sex and play and without spiritual or political leaders.
9YXQm TIL that the Roanoke colonists who "vanished" in the late 1500s may have moved to Hatteras Island and integrated with the Croatoan tribe.