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TIL Africa accounts for just 3% of the world's trade

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0dmyy TIL risk of injury or death from lightning strikes is not minimized by the” lightning position” we were taught
5Ywgp TIL that a newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616
D1bZY TIL that King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy was called "little saber" because his short stature (1.53m) required his uniform to be equipped with a saber shorter than the ordinary in order to not touch the floor when it was attached to the belt.
NVVJ TIL that half of all human deaths from the beginning of time can be attributed to malaria
kJowB TIL: various English accents have developed what linguists call a "Mary–marry–merry merger", where all three words now sound the same, due to their vowels converging