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TIL Moriusaq, Greenland had a population of 3 in 2009. A case of self defense dropped the population to 2.

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G8jG TIL there is a 10 ft (3m) wall in Lima, Peru, that separates one of the wealthiest neighborhoods from one of the poorest.
Wx8A TIL the US does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people
EB8o TIL that in 1953, Swanson overestimated the number of Turkeys it would sell by 26 tons. They decided to cook it, slice it, and sell it individually. This is known as the first ever TV dinner to be sold.
WbMN TIL that the chunks of carrot that are always there when you vomit, even if you haven’t eaten carrot for weeks, are actually lumps of orange bile.
oBnZY TIL the term “100-year flood” doesn’t mean a flood that happens once in a hundred years. It’s actually a flood that has 1% chance of happening within a single year.