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TIL in Nordic countries there is a unique “free-to-roam” right which allows you to trespass, camp, fish and pick berries on public and private lands.

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6Ee98 TIL More than 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea every year.
rRmRW TIL - To avoid tariffs, Mercedes Benz disassembles brand new German built and tested vans, ships the separated components to the USA, then reassembles the vans in a factory in Charleston SC. The one US made component is the battery.
mxYrx TIL that several months before Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Gladiator, the FBI warned him that the al-Qaeda were planning to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot”. For nearly two years, the FBI guarded Crowe in public and refused to give him any details about the threat.
oBadK TIL that a population of feral wallabies is on the loose in England. The animals, native to Australia, have been spotted dozens of times in recent years and originally escaped from zoos that were poorly maintained following WWII.
gKQD TIL the longest golf drive ever recorded goes to Russian astronaut Mike Lopez-Alegria. In 2004 he used a 6-iron to strike a ball one-handed while tethered to the International Space Station. NASA predicts the ball will fly approximately 1 million miles before disintegrating into Earth’s atmosphere.