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TIL- London is now the financial capital of the world, no longer New York City

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awNeN TIL that the animal with the smallest known brain to body ratio is the "bony-eared assfish"
16QN4 TIL during a 2016 expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster, a 30-ft model of the Monster was discovered at the bottom of Loch Ness - a lost prop from the 1970 film 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.
gZ8y TIL the Taliban offered to give up Osama bin Laden for trial before September 11, 2001.
9YP7M TIL BBC World Service carried out a poll in 19 different nations. Only 4 nations believed the US was doing more good than harm in the world (US, Nigeria, Kenya, and India). All European nations had an overwhelming negative opinion of the US. The worst was Russia. Second was Spain.
Z8WKQ TIL khat is so popular in Yemen that about 40% of the country's water supply goes towards irrigating it, and families spend about 17% of their income on khat.