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TIL the earliest known public museum existed in Neo-Babylon, 500BC

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1apAD TIL that municipalities in Liechtenstein have the constitutional right to secede by majority vote, so in the smallest municipality of Planken (population 432), it would take only ~150 people to agree to form an entirely new country
yJrM TIL when Louis the XIV of France was shown a new map of his country, which had been freshly surveyed by astronomers using more accurate methods, he saw that France had shrunk by 20 percent. He is said to have exclaimed, “I have just lost more territory to my astronomers than to all my enemies!”
GAXRj TIL Sloths can hold their breath up to 40-minutes underwater; Dolphins can hold it for only 20 minutes.
KjyR TIL that the smallest living bird is nary larger than a bee and weighs less than a single US penny
VMWyp TIL it costs more than one cent to physically create one cent.