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TIL Top 15 Countries by Potato Production (tonnes) - From 1961 to 2018

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gMYR7 TIL that the European colonial powers used indentured workers from India as cheap labor after the end of slavery
4Jl6 TIL in 1887, it was made illegal in Canada to attempt to try to get a woman under 21 years old to have sex with you by promising you would marry her if she did. Punishments for this crime included imprisonment and whipping.
epeX6 TIL that "Gangster Spongebob" is actually an extremely popular rapper in Germany
xVRo0 TIL that military tanks are called tanks because the secret program they were developed under was disquised as being about moving water tanks.
N7jRN TIL that 1 in 200 Men Are Direct Descendants of Genghis Khan (One of the most ruthless leaders of all time)