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TIL that Tuvalu could finally afford the $100,000 it cost to join the United Nations after it received its first quarterly $1 million payment for leasing out the valuable .tv internet domain.

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vPy8K TIL about unisexual mole salamanders - a group of all-female salamanders that use a unique reproductive strategy called kleptogenesis. These salamanders "steal" sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the Ambystoma genus and use it to produce female hybrid offspring.
d89EB TIL of the Continuum hypothesis : An hypothesis that has been proven unprovable under current mathematics.
Wkmpd TIL After Super Bowl XIII a Steelers fan snuck into the team showers and then answered questions from reporters as if he was a player
0GNj TIL 85% of the worlds serial killers live in the U.S. [According to an FBI Behavioral Unit study]
8NyZ TIL the government of Japan has apologized for WWII over 50 times since the end of the war.