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TIL the stars in the Brazilian flag represents the stars in the sky at the day and hour of its independence

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BrMpL TIL Dogs can tell dogs apart from other animals by sight alone - even wildly different looking kinds of dogs
ANOvn TIL that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a higher human development index than all but four countries in the world.
dDKxE Til: Montana (380,800 sq km) is larger than Germany (357,500 sq km) population 1 million vs 83 million
PYXQn TIL that Americans don’t size their papers like A2, A3 or A4 but they use Letter, Legal or Junior Legal.
e0Gln TIL that the Eiffel Tower can become 15 cm taller in the summer due to thermal expansion