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TIL when Spotify was listed on the NYSE, a Swiss flag was placed outside of the building. It should have been the Swedish one.

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ANO97 TIL that Saudi Arabia won the World Cup for the mentally disabled 4x in a row
1RVD TIL due to the popularity of the Beatles song, “Penny Lane” street signs in Liverpool were so often stolen, local authorities got tired of replacing them and began painting the street’s name onto the sides of buildings.
5V1PP TIL That the New York City Metropolitan Area is larger than the country of Equatorial Guinea. The New York Metropolitan Area has a surface area of approximately 13,318 square miles, and Equatorial Guinea has a surface area of 10,831 square miles.
dD7X7 TIL: Earth Overshoot Day is the date when humanity has used up all the resources that the planet can regenerate in a year. In 2024 it falls on August 1. If the world consumed like Qatari citizens, Feb. 11; US citizens, March 14; Indonesian citizens, Nov. 24!
9wwOm TIL that pretty much evry other country bases the beginning of Summer and Winter on the solstices. I’m Aussie and here summer always begins on December first; Winter always begins on June first. I used other sources to verify this as well; this one is just the best site where the point is most clear