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TIL the Azul wallpaper from Windows XP was taken in Aitutaki, Cook Islands in 1991

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b9Pb7 TIL: The word "Antifragile"—it describes systems that increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures; fundamentally different from resiliency (recovering from failure) and robustness (resisting failure).
Oo1Dg TIL about Posthumous Reproduction where you can “harvest” sperm from a dead person in order to reproduce
dDQxZ TIL The newest country in the world is South Sudan, an African country which gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, and is located in East-Central Africa.
ynmJ TIL Netflix and HBO have nearly identical revenue ($5.5bil & $5.4bil), but for HBO $1.8bil of that is profit…for Netflix, only $266mil is profit.
x69Dk TIL When former Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss was accused at his trial of murdering three and a half million people, he replied, "No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation."