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TIL United States is called įžŽåœ‹ in Chinese, literally meaning "beautiful country".

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AE4l TIL that Stephen King has made large charitable donations without announcing them because he was “raised firmly to believe that if you give away money and you make a big deal of it so that everybody sees it, that’s hubris. … you’re not supposed to make a big deal about it”
9Y4P6 TIL Pringles are technically not potato chips, they are molded out of powdered potato, wheat, and other additives
9vMD TIL that compared to other drinks, Sake has the highest alcohol content in the world before distillation
v1AZj TIL The ritual of releasing doves in the Olympics originated in 1896. The ritual was altered to be purely symbolic after the doves released in the 1988 Seoul Olympics landed on the Olympic Torch and were burnt alive when it was lit.
j6eZN TIL that there was human species called Homo Floresiensis, that were very small - only 1.1 m (3 f 7in) in heights