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TIL That Australia is moving 7cm north every year with is the fastest moving continental land mass on Earth

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9wP7G TIL that hundreds of miniature coffins containing frogs have been found in archaeological sites across Finland, primarily under churches and ecclesiastical buildings, believed to be a form of “protective magic”
m1VWo TIL The ingredients of the modern image of La Catrina were drawn together as recently as 1910 by the Mexican illustrator Jose Guadalupe Posada.
RXM4 TIL that the movie Crocodile Dundee’s character was loosely based on a man called Rod Ansell, who was lost in the outback for 56 days, sued Paul Hogan for not profiting from the film, lost his property, started growing weed, got hooked on meth and ended up dying in a drug fuelled police shootout.
R55y9 TIL of "mail jumping", a form of mail delivery in Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, USA where mail carriers ride along the side of a boat, jump off on to the dock, deliver mail, pick up outgoing mail, and jump back on to the boat all while the boat continues to move.
5VMZQ TIL Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann was an accomplished youth swimmer in East Germany and shortlisted for the 1980 summer olympics in Moscow but a head injury ended his career.