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TIL 90% of workers in Iceland are in a union

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X7e6 TIL that Switzerland is the only country that has seven heads of state.
gWZ7 TIL during the Cold War, an 18 year old German aviator (with only 50 hours worth of flying experience) illegally flew through Soviet airspace, bypassed their air defences and landed in Red Square, all in order to reduce tensions between the US and USSR.
Lk5lm TIL The world's most expensive painting, Leonado's $400 million Salvator Mundi, had been sold for $127.5 million 2014, before that for $75 million in 2013, and before that for less than $10,000 in 2005.
ZODo TIL: The German tiger tank can be killed by fighters by ricocheting bullets off the ground in front of it so they would come up under the tank’s belly and kill it.
6EOrm Today I learned that there is a Jewish "tradition" (primarily among Jewish New Yorkers) of eating Chinese food on Christmas.