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TIL Norway leads the world in commercial whaling, hunting hundreds more than Japan per year despite its much smaller population.

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Gwy7 TIL that the US is the only nation that prints all its currency in the same size and color, and that a court has ruled that this must change with the next currency redesign.
VML9Q TIL Dennis Richie, who along with Ken Thompson, created the C programming language in the 60s, the most influential language in history, as well as Unix (THE operating system behind MacOS and Linux), died a week after Steve Jobs in 2011. His death was ignored due to media coverage of Jobs' death.
G0pG TIL The Poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was in fact about a little girl, Mary Sawyer, from Boston whose little lamb followed her to school one day in 1816.
Oon81 TIL Not being able to poop in public toilet is a condition called parcopresis.
d8Dgj TIL Busty Heart, a big bust model who crushes things with her breasts, got all “no” votes from the America’s Got Talent judges, but got all “yes” votes and made it to the semi-finals on the German version of the show