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TIL about "Hedonometer," a tool that measures happiness levels in different regions by analyzing tweets.

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ep6Yk TIL Serbia produces peanut butter-flavored "Cheetos". They are called Smoki by Stark
mx6kv TIL Tolkein popularised "dwarves" as the plural of "dwarf" to differentiate his fantasy dwarves from humans with dwarfism, for whom the correct plural was "dwarfs". The dwarf trope became so entrenched that "dwarves" is now widely recognised as the standard plural of "dwarf" even for humans
E1mYx TIL in 1793, Thomas Jefferson requested a 1kg copper cylinder from France, to be used as a weight standard in adopting the metric system in the United States. The ship carrying the copper was blown off course into the Caribbean, where it was looted by pirates.
5Yd7p TIL Almost 2/3 of Americans never left the country. Only 36% of Americans have passports According to the State Department.
pnr8 TIL that the Black Death, which killed 75 to 200 million people, almost entirely skipped the nation of Poland