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TIL the Tower Bridge in London is a relatively modern bridge that was designed to look medieval. It's so modern in fact that there are pictures of it being built

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dAbB TIL Adam Sandler based Happy Gilmore on his childhood friend, Kyle, who lived near Sandler. Kyle was a wanna-be hockey player who could “hit a golf ball longer than anyone in the neighborhood”. Kyle joined a local golf league, and won the championship the year he joined.
KrgQ TIL over 30% of pharmaceuticals sold in developing countries are counterfeit. Roughly 50% of malaria drugs and up to 30% of antibiotics are counterfeit, mostly originating from India. Over 700,000 people die every year from consuming counterfeit drugs.
apxM TIL that a shot in the US is 25% larger than one in Northern Ireland and almost twice as large as a shot in the rest of the UK.
EgY67 TIL that there was a "dancing plague" in 1518 that killed upwards of 400 people in Strasbourg.
8eBMa TIL that Liechtenstein has virtually no debt with GDP to debt ratio being 0.5%.