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TIL that the Cape golden mole is a solitary insectivore member of golden mole family native to Southern Africa.

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moxx TIL of Exercise Tiger, a preparation exercise resulting in more casualties than the actual Utah landing at Normandy months later. A terrible disaster, a complete information blackout was ordered
WkxrL TIL the Japanese high-speed rail system has a network of seismometers that will stop their bullet trains in the event of an earthquake. This system was activated just 12 seconds before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and as a result, only one bullet train on its test run derailed that day.
8aE8P TIL there are democratically-controlled companies where workers own capital and decide what to do…
kJBo1 TIL that Mumbai (then known as Bombay) was a Portuguese colony before it came under British rule as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, (daughter of King John IV of Portugal) in her marriage to King Charles II.
XE4Nr TIL Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime, The Red Vineyard. This painting sold in Brussels for 400 Francs only a few months before his death.