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TIL that 65% of Brits admitted to falsely claiming to having read a classic book in order to impress someone with 1984 being the most popular with 42% of respondents having lied about reading it.

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Ey67 TIL that Michael Scott’s realtor/girlfriend Carol Stills was actually played by Steve Carrell’s real wife Nancy Carell.
vlBL TIL that the 6 wealthiest Arab countries (Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain) all refused to take any Syrian refugees.
pl44 TIL that billionaire Elon Musk was severely bullied throughout his childhood, and was once hospitalized when a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and then beat him until he blacked out.
ne9P9 TIL that one out of six people in the United States has genital herpes. Almost 90% of them - that's more than 48 million Americans - don’t know they have it.
9neB TIL: The most successful intelligence operation in the Cold War; emptying supplies of Soviet Union toilet paper, forcing them to use documents, and retrieving these documents after use.