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TIL - about an 11-year-old boy from the Netherlands who won a Wolfson economics prize for his solution, with a pizza analogy, to the Greek debt crisis

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QNWRk TIL in 1964, the Nth Country Experiment took three recent PhD graduates, gave them unclassified data and, three years yater, they managed to create a working device to produce a nuclear bomb
MeYda TIL Leonardo Da Vinci is credited as being first to correctly explain Earthshine
7reop TIL that the British originated and used the term “soccer” for the game even though it’s commonly believed to be an Americanism.
wLoOW TIL: In chess boxing, after 6 rounds of chess & 5 rounds of boxing (switching every 3 min), a player can win by knockout, technical knockout, or checkmate.
nWBZW TIL There is a municipality in Brazil called Altamira whose total area is twice the size of the whole of Austria and four times the size of Switzerland