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TIL Costa Rica has no army, it abolished it in 1949

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Y1G TIL that army ants will get stuck in a deadly game of Follow the Leader, getting stuck in a circle that only ends when they are nearly all dead.
9RQ TIL this weekend will be 1 second longer than normal, thanks to the slowing of the Earth’s rotation
E1eWw TIL that J.K. Rowling confused the layout of King’s Cross with that of London Euston Station when writing Harry Potter, and that Platforms 9 and 10 are actually two train lines next to each other, with no separating platform.
rRjM TIL: At a cost of up to $1,000,000, “Pirates”, a 2005 parody of Pirates of the Carribean, is the most expensive porno ever made.
6E1y7 TIL That Antarctica was originally called Terra Australis until the nineteenth century, when the colonial authorities in Sydney removed the Dutch name from New Holland. Instead of inventing a new name to replace it, they took the name Australia from Antarctica leaving it nameless for eighty years.