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TIL in the 1930s, people were convinced to use their savings to raise and sell frogs. Problem was, no-one wanted to buy frogs.

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8a7ga TIL that the world's most overweight country isn't the United States, but rather Nauru, an island country in Micronesia, with 97 percent of men and 93 percent of women overweight or obese.
X0MQQ TIL when a witness refuses to answer a question because the answer may incriminate him, the judge may force him to answer anyway if he believes the answer actually would not incriminate him.
9JxB TIL American prisons produce: 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests, 93% of domestically used paints, 36% of home appliances, 21% of office furniture, which allows America to compete with factories in Mexico.
X015r TIL of a plane who made a forced landing on a Greenland ice cap in Nov. 1942. In attempting their rescue, 6 more planes either also stranded or crashed and it would take the survivors 5 and a half months of sheltering on the glacier until they were all rescued.
LkOEr TIL Star Wars composer John William's son is the lead singer for the rock group Toto