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TIL in Germany you can buy a sausage Advent calendar
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TIL about Zone Rouge, an uninhabitable area of land in France 1,200 square km large that in 1918 was deemed too damaged by lead, mercury, chlorine and arsenic shells from WW1 to be repopulated. At the current rate of recovery, it will take 700 years to make the whole area safe
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TIL in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the bending styles for each element were influenced by a different Chinese martial art. For example, earthbenders use movements inspired by Hung Gar––chosen for its firmly rooted stances and powerful strikes as a representation of the solidity of earth.
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TIL there is a 500-year-old statue of a man eating a sack of babies in Bern, Switzerland, and nobody is sure why.
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TIL that the sun and the moon look to be the same size because the diameter of the sun and moon and the distance to earth both share a 1:400 difference, making them look the same size, this has not been seen with any other planet-moon combination
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TIL: Only 18,741 people (0.17%) of the 11 million that filled out a bracket for the billion dollar bracket challenge are still in the running after yesterday’s upsets.