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TIL There are more statues of lions in the world than there are real lions.

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jNdbv TIL that the Nazi's went on an Antarctic expedition to claim it before WW2. When doing airplane surveys they had to drop weight, so they dropped boxes of metal swastikas that were supposed to be dropped all over Antarctica. So there's boxes of swastikas on the Antarctic ocean floor somewhere.
16M1P TIL The hand heart gesture was first noted in art in 1989, when Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created an art image of the gesture as his first artwork named Family Syntax. Hand hearts became popular in 2010s
PYE0V TIL a Harvard professor suggested implanting launch codes inside a human volunteer close to their heart so the president would have to kill an innocent person in order to fire nuclear weapons.
DQgNP TIL that the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota is the only American National Park named directly after a single person.
mx8NM TIL that while repairing a whale enclosure divers during the cold war heard a human-like voice saying "out, out, out," and got out of the water to see nobody. A beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech and attempted to communicate with them.