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TIL that every atom comprising your body would span 73 light years if consecutively stacked together

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ADVgd TIL In Japan there is a fire alarm that can wake deaf people by spraying wasabi in the air
yVQPa TIL in Rwanda on the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means "Community Work".
ryBd TIL that during the Ming dynasty (approx. 1570), powdered Smallpox scabs were blown up the noses of the healthy. The patients would then develop a mild case of the disease, but were immune to it from then on.
9YYBQ TIL about the Do's and Don't in visiting Temples and Shrines in Japan
nW4ZY TIL that the government of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, currently in Canada, has been in exile since 1919 making it the oldest operational government in exile