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TIL that Vietnam population is almost 100 million, making it the 15th most populated country on Earth.

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0dr9M TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it, because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. He then decided to buy 2 lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.
M7wBA TIL that the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for the concept of beautiful, pleasant, and good --"nefer" -- also referred to their concept of zero.
QJJB9 Next time: Slow and steady.
R59l8 TIL about Guinea worm disease, a water borne parasite.
VBrLk TIL Late Empire of China banned Mining because of the traditional cosmological beliefs which regarded the land as a sacred legacy. This ban was lifted in 19th century in order to oppose European and American colonial imperialism and invasion