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TIL I learned Angry Bird is the most popular mobile video game of all-time

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LkEJZ TIL Finland schools allow students to work 3-4 hours a day. Standardized testing is illegal in Finland.
xVgQ5 TIL the word 'economics' comes from the Ancient Greek word 'οἰκονόμος' meaning "household management". The Ancient Babylonians developed the earliest system of economics in terms of laws on debt, legal contracts & private property.
5YvWn TIL Thurgood Marshall was almost lynched in Tennessee after winning the acquittals of 23 Black men. He was saved only because his co-counsel decided to follow Marshall and the police and intervene, instead of following orders to leave town.
b6VE TIL that our eyes adjust to light or dark areas by either breaking down or combining ingredients of a chemical in our eyes.
oBXeY TIL that the 'leaf sheep,' a sea slug native to Japan, is an animal that can photosynthesize. It eats algae and retains the chloroplasts that plants use for photosynthesis and can live for months on photosynthesis alone.