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nOdB TIL Venezuela had the world’s 4th highest GDP per capita in 1950; trailing only the United States, Switzerland, and New Zealand.
lBxK TIL that every Autumn, the Spartans had a period wherein their young men would go into the countryside with daggers and kill slaves without punishment as part of a “manhood test”
Zanv TIL that in 1879 cats were used to deliver mail in Belgium. It was unsuccessful.