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TIL that Bhutan is the only country to have officially adopted gross national happiness instead of the gross domestic product as the main development indicator

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p8674 TIL about the My Way killings, a social phenomenon in the Philippines referring to a number of fatal disputes which arose due to the singing of the song My Way by Frank Sinatra in karaoke bars.
j69OR TIL Egyptian hieroglyphs from 2690 BCE constitute the earliest known complete sentence and is found in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen (2nd Dynasty), Umm El Qa'ab. The sentence refers to the entombed king's father and translates as, "He has united the Two Lands for his son, Dual King Peribsen."
N7BdM TIL the only police officer to arrest a sitting President was William H. West, a black Civil War veteran. He arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding on his horse in 1872, for which the President paid a $20 bond.
Eg6po TIL there is no such thing as a chemical that changes pool water color on contact with urine
M7Kb TIL the “Cobra Effect” is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.