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TIL the official flag of Nottinghamshire features Robin Hood.

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xZwo TIL It takes cash and assets worth $68,800 (£48,300) to get into the top10%, and $760,000 (£533,000) to be in the 1%. That means that if you own an average house in London without a mortgage, you are probably in the 1%
Egd70 TIL Mao Zedong's successor Hua Guofeng tried to set up his personality cult. New songs and dances in praise of Chairman Hua were performed and a national campaign saturated China with posters showing Hua sitting with Mao. Hua even altered his appearance and calligraphy to resemble Mao
b9W9p TIL that a common Finnish joke when the Soviets invaded was "they are so many and we are so small where shall we find room to bury them all?"
D1bmP TIL: Light is measured in units called foot candles. One footcandle (ft-c) is the amount of light cast by a candle on a white surface 1 foot away in a completely dark room.
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