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TIL that Iraq's GDP per capita in 1991 was 22.8 US dollars.

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BrENW TIL that Snoopy's doghouse is always shown from the side so as to never reveal the interior, leaving what's inside to the reader's imagination. There was only one exception: on May 8, 1960, the inside of the doghouse can be seen. It's just an empty doghouse.
dDwd8 TIL About Hart Island. Located in Long Island Sound the island has seen many uses including as a POW camp, as an anti-aircraft missile battery site and a drug rehab facility. However it's primary fame is as NYC's Potter's Field with an estimated one million burials having taken place there.
V7w4 TIL That Grace Hopper is credited with popularizing the term “debugging” when she removed a moth from a computer.
XxKD TIL London has an elevated system of walkways between buildings that was more or less abandoned in the 1980s.
KO0nR TIL the original Sesame Street DVDs come with a warning that says “These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grownups and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child.”