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TIL IHunch is the name for a spinal issue caused by looking down at a phone or laptop for too long

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KOvvJ TIL that Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago with a population of 3 000, is the only visa-free zone in the world meaning that anybody may live and work there indefinitely regardless of country of citizenship.
nWal7 TIL The 1741 HMS Wager shipwreck, 6 months suffering on South Chilean Island, 60 crew mutinied leaving Captain Cheap with all the sick men and no chance to survive. The mutineers arrived in London in 1842. Cheap hiked the Andes, nearly starved in jail but arrived in London to see the mutineers hung.
p859A TIL that in England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country.
e06gJ TIL that in 2007 a Swiss infantry unit got lost and inadvertently crossed 1.5 km into Liechtenstein. The accidental invasion ended when the unit realized their mistake and turned back. When the Swiss army apologized, Liechtenstein's reply was, ‘No problem, these things happen.’
rY0y TIL - Singer James Blunt (You’re beautiful) credibly prevented a large scale confrontation between NATO and Russia