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TIL that Venezuela was called Venezuela Saudita or Saudi Venezuela due to Venezuela's Oil Boom in the early 1970s, an Economic Miracle

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WkG8d TIL American Trillion is smaller than European Trillion.
nWJZ9 TIL that Pope Paul II supposedly died from indigestion caused by eating melon in excess, or by being sodomised by a page boy
gMKwD TIL Gandalf store his smoking pipe in his staff!
mAMy TIL there’s a TV show in iceland called “Keeping up with the Kattarshians”. It’s a 24 hour live broadcast of cats in a tiny model house.
WkW8N TIL that a Chinese man lost his ability to speak after faking muteness for 12 years.