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TIL that The Netherlands has the tallest average height in Europe and Romania has the shortest.

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kJGr5 TIL that the first nuclear reactor explosion happened in 1952 in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada. Nine years before the Argonne reactor and twenty-seven years before Three Mile Island. The second also occurred at Chalk River, in 1958.
9wrQG TIL 50 years after the last Apollo mission in 1972, only 4 of the 12 moonwalkers are still alive: Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Harrison Schmitt. After leaving NASA, Duke chose the creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God
vPmPL TIL that expensive weddings are directly linked to higher divorce rates.
6EJ4m TIL that the "short" in shortcrust pastry refers to how the fats in the dough stop the flour from forming long gluten proteins in any direction; puff pastry has glutens in layers between layers of fat, like lasagne sheets. Overwork it, and glutens are formed in all directions, making it tough!
yVAoJ TIL of the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia. It is known primarily for a cave that was the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. The cave was permanently destroyed by mining company Rio Tinto in May 2020