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TIL that Denmark has a 7-point grading system in schools where the grades are 12, 10, 7, 4, 02, 00 and -3

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xVEDb TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.
Q69X TIL on 26 August 2016 in Hardangervidda, Kingdom of Norway, a “herd of wild reindeer was struck by lightning.” More than 300 (three hundred) reindeer died “in what wildlife officials say was a highly unusual massacre by nature.”
GA1X4 TIL that the Bee hummingbird, the smallest bird on Earth, is just 5,5 cm long and can even sit on a tip of a pencil
J1dKB TIL that humans have been wearing clothes for at least 40,000 years. We know this because human body lice can’t survive outside of clothes, and genetic evidence shows that they diverged from head lice 40,000-170,000 years ago.
1XlO TIL that the Fallout drug Med-X was originally called Morphine, but was renamed to avoid a ban of the game in Australia.