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TIL: Cats outnumber humans in Cyprus, with 1.5 million cats on an island about 10% the size of Ireland

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G8Mg TIL The camera that recorded the only known footage of the first plane strike on 9/11 is now in the Smithsonian Museum
rv40 TIL NY’s Statue of Liberty is legally married (under Nevada’s laws) to Christopher Columbus monument in Barcelona, Spain.
mxgex TIL that the New York Mets' team colors come from the rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. When the teams moved to California, leaving New York with just one team, the city created the Mets and used one of each of the previous colors to preserve the rivalry.
epBwL TIL from 1951 to 1973 the world economy grew almost 5% annually, but from '74 until the century end it slumped to 2%
6Ke8 TIL that if Massachusetts were a country, its students would rank 9th in the world at math, 4th in the world at reading, and 2nd in the world at science, behind only Singapore..