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TIL that the reason moles always look so clean, even though they live in the dirt, is because their hair swivels to lay in any direction.

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Y7RKW TIL that Liechtenstein sued Czechia for their stolen lands and castles they had owned for almost 700 years before their real estates were confiscated in Czechoslovakia after World War II under the so-called “Beneš decrees”. Czechia declined their claim, because of ethnic reasons.
0dyN5 TIL although Alaska cost 2 cents per acre when it was purchased for $7 million, it is an expensive place to govern due to how remote it is, its weather and natural disasters like the 1967 earthquake. Projects like the Alaska railroad were also more difficult and expensive to execute than anticipated
awvLb TIL The three days without civilian aircraft above the US following 9/11 provided useful data to climatologists about how climate is altered by the high altitude exhaust of planes.
4XQX6 TIL that Sir David Mathew was a Welsh knight who stood at 6'8 (2.03m). At 60 years old he saved the life of Edward IV at the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on British soil (the battle of Towton 1461). He died at the age of 84 in an 'altercation'.
AXpd TIL “Saving Private Ryan” made more money overseas than in the US – and was more popular in Germany than in France