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

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v1l4 TIL At Semco, a successful Brazilian company, the employees vote their superiors and decide about their wages and working times. There is almost no hierarchy, no business plans, no HR management. It’s called the seven day weekend.
jkZp TIL that Chile has a town in Antarctica, complete with a school, hospital, hostel, post office, internet, TV and cell phone coverage.
XEByR TIL that some trees accumulate toxic levels of heavy metals in their tissues as a form of defense
8XBb TIL that during the Vietnam War, a US task force known as ‘Tiger Force’ routinely cut of the ears of its victims to make necklaces from them.
a8Mey TIL that gunfights were still legal in the US less than 90 years ago