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TIL that Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are the only two double landlocked countries in the world. A country is "doubly landlocked" or "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline)

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JYWXB TIL Ginggaew Lorsoungnern, a Thai convict executed by firing squad, was discovered to have a rare condition called Situs Inversus (internal organs reversed) after she was shot in the left side of her chest and survived. After waking up in the morgue she was taken back and executed.
Wrod TIL that in 1965 at age 90 and with no heirs Jeanne Calment sold her apartment to a lawyer on a contingency contract. The lawyer, aged 47, agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. She lived to 122, and he ended up paying her >$180,000; more than double the apartment’s value.
6EDNX TIL there is a mud volcano that has been erupting since May 2006 in Sidoarjo, Indonesia. Although it has been contained with levees, mud floodings are still an often recurrance disrupting local highways and villages
KYG5E TIL New Zealand isn't depicted on many world maps (including ones used in NZ itself)
y6NM TIL in 2008 Russian hackers managed to infiltrate a computer network that wasn’t even connected to the internet. Bugged USB drives were planted in a kiosk outside NATO headquarters in the hope that a NATO employee would happen to buy one and use it on their classified network, which they did.