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TIL Easter can land in March or April and that’s likely the reason North America doesn't have two set stat holidays each month

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QNG0d TIL that Volkswagen in addition to making cars, also produces sausages in the same mega factory "under part number 199 398 500 A."
v1RRK TIL that salted butter can be left out of the fridge indefinitely... the salt soaks up the moisture in the butter that would otherwise be a breeding ground for bacteria
LQvPr TIL Mozambique is named after a person: Mossa Al Bique (an Arab trader)
l4WV TIL Tété-Michel Kpomassie, a Togolese writer, fell in love with Greenland as a child because of the absence of snakes in the country, his biggest fear. Due to this, he ran away from home and after 12 years he finally reached Greenland. He then wrote a book about it called: “An African in Greenland”
b9Wk4 TIL about the Kearny fallout meter, designed such that someone with a normal mechanical ability would be able to construct it before or during a nuclear attack, using common household items