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TIL that the Swedish version of "John Doe" is "Sven Svensson" and that the Swedish equivalent of "Average Joe" is "Medel-Svensson" (Average Svensson).

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bPaE TIL that when faced with discrimination, Alexandre Dumas, writer of the Three Musketeers and a mulatto, would write: “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
neOAr TIL about a place in Oyo State Nigeria called Igbo-Ora, regarded as the twins capital of the world with up up 150 twin sets per 1000 births
6Ke8 TIL that if Massachusetts were a country, its students would rank 9th in the world at math, 4th in the world at reading, and 2nd in the world at science, behind only Singapore..
aAAA TIL New Zealand has a road that is not connected to any other road.
4XKya TIL NASA lost communication with a spacecraft due to systems continuously rebooting because it can't process a date past August 11 2013.