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TIL that 8.2% of Norwegians eat tacos every Friday night

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Wkv1d TIL In Saxony, sometime in the early 1900s, a lady asked a man standing in uniform on a train station platform to move her trunk. He replied "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like one". The man turned out to be Frederick August III, King of Saxony.
4XD8J TIL that Singapore and Brunei currency can be use in each other country
PrOZ TIL of Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
9YZxG TIL China's Government Debt is equivalent to $1326 per capita. The US's Government Debt is equivalent to $58,200 per capita and Luxembourg has debt equivalent to $6.9 million per capita
0wMky TIL that the "hot hand fallacy" is itself a fallacy, caused by a common statistical error. Once correcting for that error, streaks or "hot hands" were found to exist in basketball.