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TIL Laos is the most bombed country in history relative to its population size

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P1lOO TIL three of the richest counties in the US are Washington DC suburbs
69EwQ TIL There was for over a decade a Finnish football team named "Sexy Pants" (SexyPöxyt in Finnish), plaing in the third and second division.
NX5Q6 TIL that life expectancy has been dropping continuously for the last few decades
ANYRw TIL there is a movement to recover and preserve “heritage apples,” those forgotten once commercial growers settled on a few varieties to mass grow. Over a thousand have been found so far.
wEXE TIL In 2012 Mathematician Vi Hart sent an open letter to Nickelodeon proving Spongebob’s Pineapple was geometrically impossible. Pineapple designer Kenny Pittenger responded on his blog (in video description) by posting a new “mathematically correct” design. This new design is now used on the show.