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TIL that the country that shares the largest border with France is... Brazil!

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5krR TIL that the Sega Master System sells roughly 150,000 units per year to this day in Brazil, and continues to get new and exclusive games to the region. It has remained popular in Brazil since its 1989 debut, making it the longest running console of all time.
LkO60 TIL a guy tried to raise his son bilingually in English and Klingon. The experiment failed when the child got older and refused to use Klingon.
EReP TIL that North Korea did not return tens of thousands of South Korean POWs after the Korean War in 1953. They and their children were forced to work in coal mines for decades; 79 escaped from 1994 to 2009. Nine hundred US soldiers also may not have been returned.
X06pE TIL the release of T. Rex's hit single "Get it On" ended the once-solid friendship between Marc Bolan and John Peel: Peel made clear his lack of enthusiasm for the song on air after playing his advance white label copy. They only spoke once more before Bolan's death in 1977.
N7xZQ TIL every century, the moon and the sun's gravity add 1.7 milliseconds to the length of a day. When dinosaurs where alive, they had 23-hour days.