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TIL the fall of Nokia has decimated Finland’s economy: “By 2000, Nokia accounted for a mindboggling 4% of Finnish GDP, 70% of Helsinki’s stock exchange market capital, 43% of corporate R&D, 21% of total exports and 14% of corporate tax revenues. It was and still is unprecedented.”

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wolQ6 TIL General George S. Patton saved several children from drowning when they fell off a yacht during a boating trip off Salem, Massachusetts in 1923. He was a still a major at that time and was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for this action.
ANoma TIL Scrabbles highest recorded single play score is 365 or 392 based on dictionary used. Its theorised the maximum single word play maybe worth up to 4046 points and the longest game recorded by Guinness was 153 hours, this won't be beaten as the publishers deemed duration records dangerous
1aKPr TIL the weird dream talking in Twin Peaks was achieved by having the actors say the words backwards then ‘reversing’ them
6EolX TIL That when Washington D.C. was first built and the federal government moved there, there was no building for the Supreme Court. They had no permanent meeting place until 1810, when they moved into the north wing (Senate) of the Capitol and stayed there until 1935 when they had their own building.
jNVgE TIL: The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered the planet Pluto, were sent to outer space on the New Horizons spacecraft making his the first human remains to leave our solar system.