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TIL the official twitter account of Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage because "No one owns the brand of Sweden more than its people".

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gMAND TIL that Japan has over 5 million operating vending machines currently within the country, making it so there is 1 vending machine per 23 people, making it the country with the most vending machines per capita in the entire world.
wJxE TIL that Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is the only film in the top 10 worldwide box office this year that is wholly original (not a reboot, remake, sequel, or part of a franchise)
oB6mr TIL that the Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful betting scheme played out at an Irish racetrack in 1975. The elaborate operation was eventually deemed legal, netting over 300K Irish pounds for Barney Curley and his team. Angry bookies paid out in over 100 bags of single bills.
d8YZE TIL the best-selling edition of Playboy magazine was the November 1972, which sold over seven million copies, when one-quarter of all American college men were buying or subscribing to it every month. By 2014 circulation had declined to 320,000 per month and now it's published quarterly.
VZPp TIL Eric Schmidt once visited North Korea and had this to say about it: “The Internet was built for everyone, including North Koreans. The quickest way to get economic growth in North Korea is to open up the Internet. I did my best to tell them this.”