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TIL that there are only 10 modern countries that have never been (in their entirety) a colony of a European empire: Liberia, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, North/South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia.

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Bvnk TIL that Yuri Gagarin’s heart was beating at 64 beats per minute just half an hour before the launch that would bring him to space. 64 BPM is lower than the average person’s pulse just after waking up in the morning
6Bx8 TIL in 1992 29,000 “bath toys” fell off a container ship near the coast of Alaska. Since then the yellow duckies have been washing up in places such as Scotland, Japan, Maine and the Arctic.
aNJb TIL that Todd Howard is one of the only developers to create four Game of the Year winners in a row with Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim
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