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TIL that the world's smallest park is in Nagaizumi, Japan, even smaller than Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon.

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ANP0o TIL that Europa has an ocean of water underneath a shell of ice that is fifteen miles thick.
X0Ma8 TIL cats have a varying number of nipples.
gMX4y TIL during the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya an ex SAS member and former Irish soldier joined forces to rescue victims of the shooting, organised police to attempt a counter attack and evaded gunfire while rescuing people still trapped in the mall
0NjL TIL that in 2007, a Tennessee man on Death Row requested that, instead of a last meal, a pizza be donated to a local homeless person. The request was denied.
kOKAg TIL mistletoe translates to “poop on a stick.” “Mistletoe," or mistiltan in Old English, derives from the Anglo-Saxon words mistel, meaning "dung," and tan, meaning "twig."