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TIL Squatting is legal in Belgium

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wLw6J TIL Japan has a sticker system for warning other drivers that the driver is inexperienced or elderly. Young drivers are designated with a “Shoshinsha” sticker, and elderly drivers are designated with a “Koreisha” sticker on their cars.
pY0o8 TIL about "Project Iceworm", a top-secret 1958 $2.7 billion U.S. plan to convert part of the Arctic into a launchpad for nuclear missiles, including a nuclear reactor. Due to shifting Greenland ice sheets, the plan was scrapped in 1967, & the massive underground structure thereafter collapsed
ndGB TIL of Arthur Ganson’s “Machine with Concrete”, a kinetic sculpture of 12 connected gear pairs with the last gear stuck in concrete. It can still turn though, due to gear reduction that cuts the rotational speed by 1/50th for each gear set. The last gear will take over 2 trillion years to turn once.
w4y8 TIL that Christopher Lee, while spending some time on leave from the RAF during WWII, climbed Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy. It erupted three days later.
V7mp TIL that because of tehnical problems astronaut Gordon Cooper used his watch and star patterns to safely land the capsule he was in