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

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OoaxL TIL “Batman: The Animated Series” has been consistently ranked as one of the greatest animated television shows ever made. It has been highly praised for its sophistication, mature writing, voice acting, orchestrated soundtrack, artistic ambition, and faithfulness to the source material.
PY1re TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer's tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas 'didn't want her looking too aggressively feminine'. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: 'No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire'.
lMNK TIL there is a cruise ship named “The World” where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe
OoQv6 TIL the German Army conducted a "Jewish Census" of their soldiers during WWI, designed to prove that Jews were shirking military service. It ended up proving the opposite, so the results were never published.
6EXd8 TIL Mehmed the Conqueror requested his father, who had abdicated earlier, to come back and claim the throne in time of trouble by saying: "If you are the Sultan, come and lead your armies. If I am the Sultan I hereby order you to come and lead my armies."