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TIL that in 2011, Argentina’s government forced McDonald’s to sell Big Macs at artificially low prices so that the country’s performance would appear better on the The Economist’s Big Mac Index

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xROg TIL that 20/20 vision isn’t actually “perfect”, and that professional baseball players average around 20/12 vision; greater acuity than conventional eye charts test for.
7Z5p TIL that in 2000, an Oklahoma schoolgirl was suspended for casting a spell on her teacher, which allegedly made him ill and caused him to be hospitalized.
9m86 TIL Crocodile Dundee is based on an actual person who survived 56 days in crocodile infested outback Australia and died in a police shootout while high on amphetamines.
7OO TIL that there are TWICE as many bicycles produced in the world than there are cars.
LvGV TIL heart disease kills more people per year than cancer, war, terrorism, hunger, suicide, diabetes, respiratory diseases and mental disorders combined.