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Verëvkina Cave in Abkhazia, the deepest known cave in the world, reaching 2212 m deep.

Rivers of Australia with their maximum (top) and minimum (bottom) width.

History of languages on the British Isles

Scripts of India

Geographical origin of various agricultural crops.

TIL that in 2017, two students in Aberdeen left a pineapple in an art gallery. It was mistaken for art and when they returned a few days later it was enclosed in glass.

Territorial history of Lithuania

Developer compass

Bathymetry of the Mediterranean sea

TIL that in the 19th century some people were buried with "coffin torpedoes", explosive devices intended to deter body-snatchers that dug up the body to sell to medical schools for anatomy study.

TIL That the domesticated hamsters we now have as pets are all descended from a single pair captured in Aleppo, Syria in 1930.

Religious map of the Middle East

Ethnic map of Middle East

TIL of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) or "Stoneman disease", an extremely rare genetic condition where the body replaces damaged tissue with bone.

TIL that the library Biblioteca Joanina in Coimbra, Portugal is home to a swarm of bats that feed on book-eating insects.