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TIL there are more pigs than people in Denmark

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69eQX TIL that to get the pear or apple into a bottle of brandy, they place the empty bottles over the budding fruit at the start of the season, and allow it to grow into the bottle all summer.
v1XlB TIL China, the country with a population of 1.3 billion, has multiple ghost cities with thousands of villas, skyscrapers and shopping malls that are still unoccupied.
N7NyE TIL bilinguals have increased executive control, which is responsible for the cognitive control of behavior. This is because bilinguals need to train their brain to suppress one language when speaking the other. As a result, they become better at controlling behavior and impulses in general.
NP18 TIL Every year tourists throw approximately 1.1 million Euro into the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
6E6DX TIL Seinfeld has had difficulty reaching global audiences. While it’s popular in Latin America, it hasn’t been widely accepted in Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Its humor, it seems, is just too complicated, too cultural and word-based, to make for easy translation.