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TIL that volunteers enlisted to clear a shallow pond in England in 2009 stumbled across a Dalek from Doctor Who

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R6K6 TIL in Denmark parents of newborn babies have to choose a name from a government approved list of 7,000 names.
GAJlQ TIL that the world’s oldest known living tree is over 9,500 years old and is located in Sweden.
DQamr TIL in the Battle of Kartarpur 1,800 Sikhs under Guru Hargobind fought an army of at least 52,000 Mughals who were led by an ex Sikh general, the governor of Peshwar, and governor of Jalandhar. The Sikh won and killed at least 50,000 Mughals.
8eAp8 TIL in 1955, a unmanned plane took off from a small aerodrome near Sydney and flew for over 2 hours over the city. Two squadrons of Air Force planes were failed to shoot it down, including one with a guy hanging out of the cockpit with a Bren gun. It was finally shot down by a third RAAF squadron.
neLOd TIL that the USSR wanted to join NATO