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TIL Sweden has the largest Mandaean population in the world. Mandaeans are the last major Gnostic faith; so given Sweden’s high Mandaean population and low general population, Sweden is the most Gnostic country on Earth.

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QNdja TIL during the Super Bowl in 1992 FOX aired a live episode of "In Living Color” at halftime to steal viewers from CBS. It was so successful that the NFL got Michael Jackson to perform the next year. Prior to 1993 halftime shows usually had themes such as "Winter Magic" or "Be Bop Bamboozled"
dDA08 TIL Australia has an unofficial timezone (UTC +08:45), which is observed by only 5 country towns (total combined population ≈200 people) along the Nullarbor Highway, near the border between South Australia and Western Australia.
gMLY8 TIL Koreans eat about 600 million chickens per year and Korean fried chicken (or KFC) and beer is so popular that its facination has spread to China via Korean soap operas. A Chinese company once flew all 4500 of its employees to Korea so they all can have KFC and beer.
QJo1p TIL of Cibella Borges, a female NYC cop who was fired from her job after it was revealed she posed for a nude magazine prior to becoming an officer. She was reinstated three years later and awarded $80,000 in backpay
neDxY TIL Shouting FIRE! in a crowded theater isn’t illegal. In U.S. v. Schenck, SCOTUS decided a pamphlet opposing the draft in WWI posed a "clear and present danger" to a nation at war. But it was overturned 40 years later.