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TIL that when euro bank notes were issued in 2002, they featured fictional bridges, so as not to cause a row amongst EU member countries. 10 years later, however, an architect for the town of Spijkenisse claimed them for the Netherlands by building all seven of them on a single waterway.

DlMJ TIL: That an American dentist drilled “Remember Pearl Harbour” on Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s dentures.
oR5nK TIL about Famadihana, a funerary tradition of Madagascar. People bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts, rewrap them in fresh cloth, and rewrite their names so they will always be remembered. The practice is thought to be connected to pneumonic plague transmission
698n7 TIL of Aldgate Pump, a historic water pump held as marking the start of London’s East End. Long famed for its “sparkling, agreeable” water, it was later found that this rich mineral taste came from the flesh and bones of nearby cemeteries leeching into the water. The tainted water killed hundreds.
oBRVL Kenny Broad, a National Geographic emerging explorer and environmental anthropologist, explains how he sometimes smells the characteristic rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulfide gas when scuba diving in blue holes—even while wearing a mask and regulator.
9reX TIL: a russian farmer’s wife gave birth to 69 children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets… when she died her husband remarried and had another 18 kids.