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TIL That Finland was ranked as the World's Happiest Country in 2019 by CNN

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9epm TIL Japanese honey bees defend against Japanese giant hornets by forming a tight ball around the offending hornet. Vibrating their wings, the bees create and direct enough heat to the centre of the formation that it becomes lethal to the hornet.
a87D9 TIL that the film 'Transylvania 6-5000' (1985) starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. was shot in Yugoslavia and coproduced by the Dow Chemical Company. Dow had funds in Yugoslavian Dinars that could only be spent within the country, and they needed to unfreeze the assets.
VMmZD TIL that France still has a territory in the Canadian Maritimes.
KOxjR TIL that Freeform, formerly the Family Channel, the Fox Family Channel and ABC Family, was originally an evangelical Christian channel called the CBN Satellite Service before being sold to Fox and later Disney
AR7n TIL that velociraptors were only 3 feet tall, 30 lbs, and probably feathered. There is no evidence that they hunted in packs and it is believed that they were less intelligent than cats and dogs. The “velociraptors” in Jurassic Park were actually based on the species Deinonychus.