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TIL that in the Soviet Union in 1991, voting “None of the Above” led to new elections with new candidates, eventually leading to the end of the Soviet Union.

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l78pr TIL while there are more than 1300 species of insects in Iceland, no species of mosquitoes have yet been discovered, except the one preserved in the Natural History Museum, found in an airplane from Greenland in the 1980s.
YpNJd TIL about the "London Necropolis Railway", a railway line opened in 1854 just to carry corpses (and mourners) to a cemetery (at the time the largest in the world) 37km away from the city. There were even two stations in the cemetery, one for the Anglicans and one for non-Anglicans.
LkwMZ TIL Crocodiles Do Not Die of Old Age
9YG0D TIL Amazon physically ships 100 petabytes of data at a time via shipping containers on semi-trucks to AWS datacenters for companies migrating to the cloud
kV64 TIL that there’s a waterfall in Antarctica that has a water source completely free of oxygen. Containing a high amount of Iron & Sodium. When the water is exposed to air as it flows out of the glacier it rusts coloring the water red making it look like the glacier is bleeding!