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TIL in Germany there is a flooded mine in which you can go scuba-diving.

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8kXV TIL that FedEx’s current CEO and founder Frederick W. Smith didn’t have enough money to keep the company afloat, he took the remaining 5k and brought it to Vegas and by Monday morning they had 32k, enough to fuel their planes and stay in business long enough for another round of funding.
x6Zo7 TIL - we use all of our brains. Constantly.
4exJ TIL that there is evidence to suggest that the reason Asian cultures are typically more skilled at maths than non-Asian cultures is not due to intelligence, but to the nature of their languages.
R59Dw TIL Each species of frog has a distinct call, and though even among the same species, different dialects are found in different regions. Although humans cannot detect the differences in dialects, frogs can distinguish between the regional dialects.
W77a9 TIL in 2010, a Princeton research team discovered that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.