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TIL the Faroe Islands and Greenland are allowed to import 5x more live mussels into Belgium than other countries/territories.

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VPgD TIL Major James Nesmeth, a POW in Vietnam for 7 years, used golf visualization to stay sane. Every day he played a full 18 holes in his head as if he were actually there. After being released, he tried golf again for real and shot a 74 which was 20 strokes off his previous average.
J5pB TIL of Harvard Observatory astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt; given the boring job of examining the luminosity of stars in thousands of photos, she discovered how to measure the distance between the Earth and faraway galaxies. At the time, she was not allowed to operate Harvard’s telescope.
86YG TIL that in the United States, more money is stolen by employers from employees each year than is stolen in robberies, burglaries, larcenies and auto thefts COMBINED. The most common victims of wage theft are low wage workers.
MeMVW TIL When Usain Bolt Was Asked How He Could Run So Quickly He Responded, “I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared"
raao TIL 1 in 30 births in the United States are twins.