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TIL in Sweden you have a constitutional right to camp wherever you wish in the countryside as long as you do not camp too close to somebody's home. This includes being able to camp on private land.

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Wk9E9 TIL- In Oymyakon, Russia, the average winter temperature is -58F. In 2013, a record low of -98F was recorded. During the winter, residents keep their cars running at all time and food is often eaten raw or frozen. Schools in the area remain open despite temperatures in the -40s.
wWJE TIL of Claudette Colvin, the 16-year-old African-American girl who refused to give up her bus seat 9 months before Rosa Parks
lopD1 TIL there is a scientific journal called “Combustion and Flame”
Y714G TIL that birds are taxonomically considered reptiles and crocodiles are more closely related to birds than lizards.
4XnJg TIL: That our solar system is flying through the Milky Way Galaxy at an incomprehensible 828,000 Kilometers an hour, but the Milky Way is so big that it still takes the Solar System 230 million years to orbit it.