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TIL Cuba has one of the world’s highest literacy rates at 99.8%

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NXblP TIL before 1804, the office of the US vice-president was awarded to runner up to the presidential race
Y7yxA TIL that 6174 is called the Kaprekar Constant after Indian Mathematician D.R. Kaprekar. No matter which four digit number you start with (as long as it is not identical), you will always end up at 6174 in a maximum of seven iterations.
gMWeA TIL that a 2016 study found that the Thunder Mountain roller coaster at Disney World reliably makes people pass kidney stones.
VM6D8 TIL that between 1921 - 1976, Sweden sterilized up to 63,000 people. Teenagers as young as 15 were sterilized for inadequacies as trivial as shortsightedness or because they allegedly lacked judgment or had "no obvious concept of ethics".
GY06E TIL about Trasmoz, a town in Spain that was excommunicated for witchcraft in the 13th century, with Pope Julius II also cursing the village in 1511. Neither the excommunication or curse have been lifted. Every June, during the Feria de Brujeria festival, one person is named as 'Witch of the Year'.