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TIL that in Denmark you get paid to go to school

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agbA TIL that Mexico is world’s fattest country with a 32.8 percent adult obesity rate, surpassing United States’ 31.8 obesity rate
vKGK TIL that ketchup’s popularity and universality is due in part to the fact that it embodies all five distinct tastes: salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami
VMZjp TIL By bringing light to a focus, a telescope forms an image — a little picture floating in the air inside the tube. Eyepieces makes it possible to view that image and changing eyepieces determines a telescope's magnifying power
9reX TIL: a russian farmer’s wife gave birth to 69 children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets… when she died her husband remarried and had another 18 kids.
rRdBM TIL in 1918 Russia, the Romanov family were brutally executed (with an even more disturbing burial). The Romanov children survived the initial spray of bullets and attack with bayonets because their clothes were lined with more about 1.3kg diamonds and gemstones each, as an improvised armour.