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TIL: Japan has the world’s second highest adoption rate, but almost all adoptees are adults.

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MeBJ0 TIL that the U.S. was one of the original 17 who signed the Treaty of the Metre (Convention du Mètre) and given two of the original forty cylinders that is know as the International Protoype Kilogram
KOpeQ TIL: The Mongol Empire once extended over an estimated 9.27 million square miles (24,000,000 km2), which is about 17.8% of Earth's total land area, almost 5x larger than 'Pax Romana' Rome.
16nKD TIL Former U.S. Army sergeant who worked in military intelligence and carried a top secret security clearance was arrested , charged while trying to pass information to China
8eR5Z TIL Hans Christian Ørsted made the first connection between electricity and magnetism, which brought about a communications revolution due to its application to the electric telegraph