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TIL King Fahd International Airport serving Dammam, Saudi Arabia is larger than the neighboring country of Bahrain.

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OoXQe TIL that for the English-language version of the Japanese Studio Ghibli movie, Ponyo, the animators had to painstakingly re-draw the lips and mouth movements to properly match the language change - "You don't think of this as being a dubbed Japanese film."
nW8b9 TIL: There is a study on hobbies which categorizes them from the best to worst in terms of happiness to cost ratio. The most expensive are traveling ($630), Collecting ($287), and Cooking ($240). Video games only cost $71 monthly in comparison.
DQYEY TIL that there are no known creature on earth with an odd number of legs used for locomotion except kangaroo.
rRDdw TIL that the more nearsighted (myopic) you are, the more elongated your eyeball is.
gMX1A TIL on Christmas, 1992, George H. W. Bush pardoned 6 Reagan administration officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal