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

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DNpg TIL the first thing Reagan said to his wife after his attempted assassination is “Honey, I forgot to duck.”
mPyE TIL that discoveries of 19th century spear points in freshly killed whales in the 90’s suggested that at least some individuals reached 200 years old.
LklEQ TIL that during WW2, the Soviet Union trained dogs to blow up German tanks. Their usage was later discontinued, as the dogs tended to ran back to the familiar smell of Soviet soldiers and tanks, killing them instead.
oRK67 TIL Australia's first ever medal won at the Winter Olympics was a gold medal in Short Track Skating and the skater, Steven Bradbury, was dubbed "the accidental hero" after winning in a very bizarre sequence of his rivals colliding in all the elimination phases (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final)
WKDA TIL Mexican drug cartels started using pimped out potato cannons to fire cannisters full of drugs over the border