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TIL: Iraq's GDP is $284 Billion

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brbp TIL that as their senior prank, a group of 90 students walked (between two buildings) across the same street continuously for 15 minutes, using an underground tunnel that connected the two buildings. They continue long enough to cause a traffic jam, and the line of cars extended far down the road.
XE7or TIL the German village of Würchwitz erected a statue of a cheese mite to honor its role in making Würchwitz's special cheese, Milbenkäse. The cheese mites help make the cheese by excreting their digestive juices over the cheese.
p87GZ TIL of an old brand of cigarettes named "Death". Slogans on the packaging included phrases such as "Let Us Be The Nail In Your Coffin", "The Grim Reaper Don't Come Cheaper", and "Cigarettes are addicting and debilitating. If you don't smoke, don't start. If you do smoke, quit."
lokdB TIL Queen Victoria was buried in a white dress and her wedding veil, alongside many mementos. Her late husband's dressing gown and a plaster cast of his hand was placed beside her, and a lock of her favourite servant John Brown's hair along with his photo was placed in her left hand.
YPV7 TIL that males statistically average more sexual partners than women in every country in the world…except New Zealand.