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TIL that California’s economy has surpassed Russia and Italy to become the eighth-largest in the world

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ADEWg TIL that scientists tried — and failed — to make a knife out of frozen poop, debunking a story that an Inuit (Eskimo) man fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces.
6Aml TIL the late King Olav V of Norway used public transport. He was nicknamed Folkekonge, “The people’s king”.
R5pyQ TIL that the first state to introduce a stylized license plate was Idaho. In 1928, they put a big potato on theirs.
DQaae TIL there’s a polish group of LARPers that recreate a small Ohio trailer park that features supernatural events; inspired by stranger things and x files.
PYyve TIL The Inca did not have a written language but they did store and transfer information via a system of knots in rope that is still being decoded