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TIL of Rabban Bar Sauma, a Christian monk from China who travelled from Beijing to Western France at the same time as Marco Polo travelled the opposite way

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jXdp TIL Helsinki is expanding below the surface. Incised into the city’s bedrock are a swimming pool, a shopping area, a church, and a hockey rink. Just to name a few facilities besides 40 miles of tunnels for heating and “parking caverns”. They plan to built 400 buildings until 2020.
LkXnm TIL about the world's smallest feline, the Rusty Spotted Cat. It has been known of for a while but very rarely filmed.
b64Dp TIL that the first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m. It was created in 1787 by Levi Hutchins in Concord, New Hampshire. This device he made only for himself, however, and it only rang at 4 am, in order to wake him for his job.
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x5XD TIL Thailand has highest number of female CEOs globally