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TIL that Turkey, a majority-Muslim country, has the highest average number of lifetime sexual partners among these nations. Unexpected

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9wQkQ TIL The Wolf of Wall Street, a dark comedy about financial fraud, was itself funded by one of the biggest corruption scandals in modern financial history.
JYmAm TIL that Archaeologists discovered a 26-foot statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum. The biggest clue pointing to the statue's true identity was the discovery of an inscription on it that read "Nebaa," a name closely linked to Psamtik I.
d8go9 TIL oppurtunity rover survived for 15 while NASA expected it to last only for 3 months. Her last message was "my battery is low and its getting dark"
1aZO TIL on September 21, 1997, a crew member aboard the USS Yorktown accidentally divided by zero and caused a systems failure that stopped the propulsion of the ship.
P1awn TIL that certain types of cheeses are made using tiny arachnids called "cheese mites" which ingest the unfinished dairy product and excrete the material that completes the cheese.