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TIL France is the country with the most time zones
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TIL the phrase 'Knock on Wood' derives from the pagan belief that malevolent spirits inhabited wood, and that if you expressed a hope for the future you should touch, or knock on, wood to prevent the spirits from hearing and presumably preventing your hopes from coming true.
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TIL Dr Seuss’ name rhymes with ‘Voice’ not 'Zeus’
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TIL that some countries are measuring the happiness of their people instead of economic success as a measure of how well the country is doing.
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TIL that part of the Manhattan Project involved injecting patients with plutonium to see what would happen
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TIL you have to cook lobsters alive because they are full of toxic bacteria that multiply rapidly after death