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TIL that trade in albino body parts is an actual thing in Tanzania.

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VBw84 TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the city of Verdun’s defence system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 100,000 casualties to retake it.
8ab0Z TIL that the first undisputed voyage to the North Pole was actually made by an Italian airship called the Norge. It was also led by Roald Amundsen, the same man who first made it to the south pole.
VMVp8 TIL it is illegal in many US states for teenagers to drive with multiple friends
8g44 TIL deuterium, one of the ingredients of nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and “viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor, a gallon of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline.”
WkQaN TIL the landlocked country of Mongolia has the smallest navy in the world. It is a single tugboat with a crew of seven, located in Lake Khovsgol which is surrounded entirely by Mongolian territory.