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TIL that to tell how old sharks are, they count the rings in the vertebrae

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R7eE1 TIL that people don't like Jersey's anthem so they sometimes prefer an old one that is about France and doesn't even mention Jersey
DWMJ TIL that until 2015 there was a small chunk of Indian territory within Bangladesh within India within Bangladesh. It was the worlds only so called ‘third-order enclave’.
b98eQ TIL than motherboard and other electronics element, like hdd and cars, use one of the most expensive metal on Earth with the Palladium (more expensive than gold)
rR5xw TIL NASA’s Crawler-Transporter gets .0067 mpg, making it the worst gas mileage of all self-propelled land vehicles in the world.
7rJ8b TIL Chess grandmasters can lose 10 pounds and burn 6,000 calories just by sitting