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TIL Denmark has the highest consumption of meat per person
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TIL that "We'll meet again", the song from the final scene of Dr Strangelove, would have also been used by the BBC Radio for "morale-boosting" in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
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TIL All new FBI agents are required to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum
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TIL that the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, is home to over 1,500 species of fish, 4,000 species of mollusk, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. The reef spans over 1,400 miles and can be seen from space, making it one of the largest and most diverse ecosystems on the planet.
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TIL of Lafayette, "The Hero of Two Worlds", at 18 as a French Marquis he defied the King and sailed to America to fight in the Revolutionary War, he then left and served in the French Revolution. Once, when captured, Napoleon himself secured his release. He is buried under soil from Bunker Hill.
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TIL: A morbidly obese woman refused to get free weight-loss surgery offered by the NHS because she didn’t want to lose the £75,000 in disability benefits she was receiving.