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TIL The UK has more external debt (percentage of GDP) than not only the infamous US Debt, but even Greece.

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Bmpy TIL that NBC’s To Catch a Predator conducted a sting operation that resulted in the suicide of a pedophile who was having sexually explicit chats with a decoy posing as a minor.
NXrOM Today I learned that early versions of the periodic table included a material called didymium as an element. It was later discovered that didymium was actually an alloy of praseodymium and neodymium.
NXvB8 TIL that 11 basketballs, which is equal to 144 baseballs, can come from 1 cow hide and that beef is, in actuality, the #1 food source for Protein, Vitamin B12, and Zinc.
4neg TIL Sweden is so good at recycling that it has to import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs
m1GwE TIL King Henry V of England died of dysentery in 1422, only two years after conquering France to occupy its throne