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TIL The liquid breathing scene in The Abyss is based on reality, and the white rat was actually locked in a box of fluorocarbon (the "breathable" solution).

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9Y0OM TIL about a tiny strip of Belgian land inside Germany, where there once was a railroad that Belgium was awarded after WW1. Today its a cycling road. But the land still belongs to Belgium and both nations has agreed to keep it that way
Oo6Je TIL that Kung Fu, which is symbolic with China, actually originated in India in 1st millennium AD and it was introduced in China by the Buddhist monks who travelled there from India.
6EgD7 TIL there is giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.
BAab TIL that Australian aborigines have stories that tell of events from the last glacial maximum (21,000 years ago) when Australia and Indonesia were connected by a vast land bridge. These stories are some of the oldest extant repositories of human knowledge.
jN48M TIL The World's Oldest Complete and surviving Book Was found In Bulgaria and its +2.600 years old