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TIL in 1991, America's best selling "car" was the Little Tikes - Cozy Coupe

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KmrR TIL the wealthiest self-made woman in the world is a Chinese woman who had the foresight to export US waste paper, recycle it to China to make boxes and packing materials, which will be sent back to the US creating a never ending cycle.
L1RZ TIL there will be a comet passing Earth in Oct-Nov 2013 that may be bright enough to see in the daylight with the naked eye!
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x6JL5 TIL that the Kingdom of Portugal and the Portuguese Republic were founded on the same day (October 5, the Kingdom being founded by the Treaty of Zamora and the Republic being founded by the 1910 revolution).
l7vLV TIL that whilst accounting for only 4.2% of the earth's population, The United States controls 31.5% of the planet's wealth.