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TIL nodding your head to mean “yes” and shaking your head to mean “no” is common among people of every country in the entire world, except Bulgaria and southern Albania, where they mean the opposite.

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yVVrX TIL Japan has a lower obesity rate than North Korea
E8Zd TIL the kids television show Arthur did a parody of South Park during an episode.
rRwad TIL Eagle Mountain, CA is one of America's newest ghost towns having been founded in 1948 and all but abandoned by the mid 1980s.
GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
LQDR0 TIL, the average thru hiker on the Appalachian Trail spends $10,000 during their 5 month hike