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TIL There are still 11 countries that don't recognize Croatia as an independent state

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d8xZK TIL that Sperm Whale vomit, or "Ambergris", is very valuable and is used to make perfumes, due to its pleasant smell.
Bk9k TIL that Filip Konowal, a Canadian WW1 veteran and Victoria Cross recipient, upon discovering that a bootlegger had viciously beaten a friend of his, disarmed the man and stabbed him to death. Konowal later told police: “I’ve killed fifty-two of them, that makes the fifty-third.”
kOaa1 TIL Steve Jobs once argued that’s it completely unnatural to touch the screen on a PC. He reportedly said people's arms would fatigue and called the idea “ergonomically horrible.”
7QYZ TIL The US could make 71 Billion a year just by taxing churches
0d9Vy TIL a priceless Roman marble bust was sold at a Texas Goodwill for $35