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TIL that North Korea has less firepower than Thailand, and only slightly more than Ethiopia.

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XRKX TIL that the ‘Lorem Ipsum’ text is typically a scrambled section from Cicero’s work 'De finibus bonorum et malorum’ ('On the ends of good and evil’) from the 1st Century BC. 'Lorem ipsum’ is derived from the Latin 'dolorem ipsum’ - “pain itself”.
P15Gg TIL Tina Turner’s Nutbush City Limits is so popular in Australia that it is referred to as an unofficial national anthem. Children learn the line dance at school, it’s a wedding playlist + wedding dance non-negotiable and thousands dance the line dance at Outback music festivals.
X5pD TIL in the movie “Deja Vu”, Denzel Washington’s character had to have already gone back in time at least once before the start of the movie for all of the plot elements to make sense.
VMAN0 TIL that Mythbusters got bullied out of airing an episode on how hackable and trackable RFID chips on credit cards are, when credit card companies threatened to boycott their TV network
KQlG TIL that it is (generally) a violation of the National Labor Relations Act for a US company to tell its employees that they are not allowed to share their salaries with their peers.