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TIL that Iceland let its three largest banks fail, instead of bailing them out. It ensured that tax payers got their money back and gave debt relief to struggling homeowners and to businesses facing bankruptcy. And their economy is booming!

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xVekD TIL there are more statues of lions in the world than there are actual lions
lon7 TIL that if you draw a line around some Ants, they won’t cross it. Calcium Carbonate in chalk will puncture their skin and kill them with dehydration
lo4AV TIL during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russians made a small "mouse" hole into a secure anti-doping lab and exchanged "clean" urine samples for those showing their athletes' PED use. Over 100 dirty samples were smuggled out by a Russian agent pretending to be a sewer engineer.
6mB8 TIL queen bees continues to mate until she collects more than 70 million sperm from multiple males.
6wX7 TIL of Ponso, a roughly 40-year-old chimp, who was dumped on an abandoned island off the Ivory Coast more than 30 years ago after being used for medical testing. He relies on the kindness of a nearby villager, Germain, who’s dropped off bananas and bread for him ever since he was left to die