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TIL A man in Australia declared his farm an independent micronation called the Province of Bumbunga. He decided to plant a huge scale model of Britain using thousands of strawberries, to attract tourism.

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pM4A TIL there is a small, one-story building in Wilmington, Delaware which serves as the official address of nearly 300,000 companies. Up to 200,000 are believed to be shell companies.
VMdMQ TIL today's Earth might not be habitable today had it not been for the 1987 Montreal Protocol
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