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TIL Americanism is a Catholic heresy

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yVl9J TIL in Sweden, kids wear witch costumes and go door-to-door for candy... but on Easter, not Halloween.
wLRL1 TIL among consultants, managers cannot tell the difference between employees who actually work 80 hours a week and those who just pretended to.
KYl74 TIL that Indians/Indo-Mauritians make up approximately 66% of the population in Mauritius, followed by Mauritian Creoles (28%), and Chinese Mauritians (3%).
QNaMa TIL: That the Beijing Weather Modification Office were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics were free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.
64Yw TIL, speedlimits are somewhat pointless. When limits were changed by as much a 20mph, the rate vehicles traveled didn’t change. What did was the number of citations given.