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TIL that the Netherlands is ranked #2 in the entire world in terms of total food exports.

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jlBp TIL Drake Bell, despite having little music success in the U.S., has multiple top 10 singles and albums in Mexico
d5mj TIL that there were two New York brothers who were severe hoarders through the 1940s. One of them took care of the disabled other. The healthy brother set up booby traps all around the house to keep outsiders away, which led to the accidental death of both of them.
gMEZb TIL of Ranald MacDonald, a Chinook/Scotsman from Oregon Country, who went to Japan in 1848 despite its strict isolationist policy. Risking death, he pretended to be shipwrecked & got captured. While imprisoned, the gov't sent 14 samurai to be his pupils, as he became Japan's first English teacher.
9w6a7 TIL there is a type 3 diabetes that is severely under-diagnosed. It is linked to problems with the pancreas specifically.
Z8KlR TIL - the "Existential Slap" is the experience a dying person has when they know, at a 'gut level' death is close.