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TIL American country music is one of the most popular music genres in Nigeria

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V6DG TIL when Nestlé declined an offer to watch his film about the exploitation of African children to harvest chocolate, director Miki Mistrati set up a large screen next to their headquarters and played it there.
9YrAQ TIL China consumes nearly 75% of the worlds pickles
ADLAl High-speed video imaging colored to reveal the two main components of a sneeze show a shower of larger droplets, green, whose trajectories can extend up to two meters from the person sneezing, yellow, and a cloud, red, made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas. Pathogen-bearing droplets can be suspended in the air for not just seconds, but minutes, and can travel up to 27 feet.
kY4B TIL that in 2011 Geico spent just under one billion dollars on advertising
oB49A TIL MIT students can earn a pirate certificate by taking the Archery, Fencing, Pistol (or Rifle) and Sailing physical education courses as part of their physical education requirement.