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TIL New Zealand gave a volcano the same legal rights as a living person in the same way America does with corporations.

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mGLv TIL that if you cut a potato into pieces and bury them separately, each piece will grow into a new potato
l79K7 TIL Americans are actually really stupid people, most of them think America is the world. Can’t name any other country and some can’t even point to where America is. Absolute joke of a country
jwLR TIL there’s a series of large concrete arrows pointing the way across the US, once used to guide airmail planes
loRl1 TIL the Japanese names for Jessie and James from Pokémon are Musashi and Kojiro, respectively. This is a reference to renowned Japanese swordsmen Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro, who fought a famous duel in 1612.
prOp TIL in 1947 the British used 6800 tonnes of surplus WW2 explosives to destroy military infrastructure on the tiny island of Heligoland. Loss of the island was acceptable. The explosion resulted in one of the largest single non-nuclear detonations recorded. Newsreel footage in comments.