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TIL Estonia is considered the first digital nation

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Gb5G TIL in 2006, a bank manager in China stole $26,000 from the bank. His plan was to purchase lottery tickets with the intent of winning enough that he could return the money before the theft was discovered and still have some left over for himself. Despite the odds, his plan succeeded.
dDJNj TIL that in certain fish species—including seahorses, pipefish, and leafy seadragons—the male actually gets pregnant and carries the offspring in a special brood pouch!
6EMgm TIL (TOR is a free browser that allows anyone to browse the internet anonymously, first developed in the 90's by a US Naval Research Laboratory employee, 80% of $2 million annual budget comes from US government, Swedish government, other organizations & 20,000 personal donation from people like you
kJmg TIL that, according to a June 2012 Gallup poll, 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.
JGO1 TIL that Tonga, a nation consisting of over 1200 islands in the Pacific, has never been conquered or colonized ever and is ruled by a King that traces his ancestry back 1000 years.