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TIL of Oland, an island in Germany with a population of only 16 people. Storms flood Oland every week during winter. It has a railway track which was built in 1923 and it takes 20 minutes for Olanders to reach the mainland through it.

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YnB7 TIL that a man on death row escaped from prison the night before his execution only to be killed in a bar fight the following night.
R7bD6 TIL in the 1880s, many farmers communicated by connecting their phones to barbed wire fences. This process often allowed for up to 20 people to be connected at once, everyone’s phone would ring regardless of who called, and the invention helped many farmers overcome depression and loneliness.
N7PKM TIL J.J Thompson was awarded a Nobel prize in 1906 for proving Electrons are particles, his son G.P Thomas was awarded a Nobel prize in 1937 for showing electrons are waves
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