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TIL - The Yukon Territory recognizes the moose by its common name… the “Rubber-nosed Swamp Donkey”.

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MWv7 TIL that there is a British and American version of “death at a funeral” and Peter Dinklage played the same role in both
WkgA8 TIL if the people of Planken, Liechtenstein exercised their constitutional right to secede, they would become the world's least populated nation (450 people) and the third smallest in area.
NwKP TIL that Stalin, sent an expedition to open Timur (Tamerlane) Kahn’s tomb, which had an inscription that read, ““Whoever disturbs my tomb will unleash an invader more terrible than I,” and two days later Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest and most brutal invasion of WWII.
rpy4 TIL There are NO public or portable toilets provided for the New Years Celebration in Times Square.
bPbQ TIL there is still a lava-like molten mixture of nuclear reactor core that remains from Chernobyl - 300 seconds looking at it and you would be dead in two days