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TIL: The president of France is the co-prince of Andorra.

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nWrXW Today I Learned Corporate Law In Japan Is Directly Based On Illinois Corporate Law.
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xV0eg TIL about Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who among other things, sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat.
rWG4 TIL that there’s a small college in Oregon with its own nuclear reactor, run by undergraduate students. It has more female reactor operators than all the other research reactors in the world …combined.
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