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TIL The US owes less to other countries than it’s owed.

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D1OYe TIL that in France, students are taught that there are 5 continents. This blew my mind because in the USA, I learned that there are 7 continents and thought it was a universal fact.
gMdgy TIL People in the final stages of hypothermia engage in "paradoxical undressing" because, as they lose rationality and their nerves are damaged, they feel incredibly, irrationally hot. They strip off their clothes to cool themselves down as they are freezing to death and then start burrowing.
oRjOK TIL that in 2019, the satirical series “South Park” released an episode entitled ‘Band in China’, mocking the Chinese government’s harsh censorship and Hollywood’s attempt to avoid it. As a result, South Park was banned in china.
OolNe TIL that Native Americans would use porcupine hairs to make hairbrushes. Sometimes a stick was cut into the right shape and frayed at the edges to make a toothbrush.
Bgvor TIL about operation cottage, which resulted in friendly fire after US and Canadian forces mistook one another for Japanese troops. The Japanese had actually left two weeks prior.