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TIL Australia speaks english

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MQLW TIL The Economist has an indicator of the purchasing power of a country measured in how many Big Macs could be bought in that country with $50 USD - The Big Mac Index.
dDrl8 TIL in the US there are 24 Tri-state, 28 Twin-city, 25 Tri-city and 5 Quad-city areas.
mxBgE TIL that the reason older people's houses have a weird, distinct odor to them is because of chemicals from the skin glands getting broken down into small odorous molecules that waft into the air.
4MER TIL The Minnesota Vikings are the only NFL team to have an actual human as their mascot. His name is Ragnar
r5BM TIL that the largest known fossil spider is only about half the size of its modern relatives. (Meaning that the biggest spiders that exist today might be biggest spiders that have ever existed…)