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TIL that the hip-hop group Beastie Boys are credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with naming the mullet hairstyle in a 1994 song.

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Oo5PL TIL that Tuvalu gets 10% of its GDP from leasing its .tv Top Level Domain. This allowed it to able to enter the UN because it could finally afford the $100,000 entrance fee.
D1laP TIL about the Nazi program to develop nuclear weapons. The program suffered from a lack of scientists, as the politicization of research in Nazi Germany had pushed most scientists to flee to the United States.
Ge6j TIL 80,000 Polish people are still trying to claim back their property since they had to abandon the area. The total value of the property is 2.7 million US dollars.
5L8R TIL that, in terms of wars won and lost, the French military has the best military record in Europe, having won 109, drawn 10, and lost 49 of the wars it’s participated in since 387 BCE
e9Ek TIL A man named Steve Schutz submitted himself to over 150,000 mosquito bites over twelve years to build up immunity. He no longer itches from mosquito bites