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TIL One of Japan’s most popular mascots is an egg with crippling depression

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wnxJ TIL that despite its small size (41,543 sq. km, 134th in the world) and high population density (406 per sq. km, 24th in the world), the Netherlands is the number two exporter of food and agricultural products in the entire world, after only the United States.
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