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TIL Britain is responsible for 63 independence day celebrations around the world. That is, on average, 1 Independence Day celebration from UK every 6 days through out the year.

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RW1w TIL an almost-invisible square metre sheet of graphene could be made into a hammock to hold the weight of a 4kg cat, despite weighing less than one of the cat’s whiskers
wLWyP TIL Italy, France, and Brazil are not even in the top ten highest consumers of coffee. The Nordic countries dominate coffee consumption and are all within the top ten countries worldwide. Further, Finland (the highest consumer in the world) more than doubles the annual consumption of Italy.
OG9V4 TIL that there is a negative form of the halo effect, called The Horn Effect , which allows one disliked trait or aspect of a person or product to negatively influence globally. For those seen in a negative light, anything they do that is negative is exemplified, while the positive are not seen.
ADnRg TIL that on the first day the Suez Canal opened, Nov 17, 1869, a French ship named the Péluse ran aground and blocked the canal, forcing ships stuck in the canal to wait until the next morning when the Péluse was hauled away.
R5m0a TIL about Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands. The islands, which are uninhabited, are among the most remote places on Earth, they can be reached only by sea, which from Australia takes two weeks