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TIL that Texas is the only state with three cities over one million people.

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Bg0XK TIL that Nepal has the lowest average IQ of any country with 42.99 IQ with Liberia and Sierra Leone following close by at 45.07.
kJW4e TIL of Australian Senator Bill Heffernan, who in 2014 felt that the new security arrangements at Parliament House were inadequate. To protest this, he smuggled in a fake pipe bomb and presented it at a Senate hearing as proof that the building was "no longer secure".
KYpJ TIL that a big group of women in the Ukraine have formed a modern amazon tribe called Asgarda. Their goal is to have complete autonomy from men, they train in different martial arts and sciences, and live in the Carpathian Mountains.
6E9rl TIL the German Parliament has the grafiti "I f--k Hitler in the ass" preserved as a historic monument on one of its walls
loZPK TIL that Swatch Internet Time was a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation. Instead of having time zones, hours, and minutes, decimals were used to measure what time it was.