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TIL that Switzerland is the richest country in the world by financial assets per capita, with USA coming in second

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jN7LQ TIL that although Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon, the title of the first man to pee on the moon goes to Buzz Aldrin.
69GNQ TIL there is a Leg Lengthening Surgery. First your legs are broken and screws inserted. Then your body forms new bone, ligament and arteries to fill the space.
Wk6DB TIL Mark Zuckerberg was sued by 3 reporters from the Crimson, after Zuckerberg hacked into their email accounts to monitor the investigation against him. He used their invalid logins on facebook.com, to zero in on their email passwords.
Xrjk TIL that Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line. Even before the Industrial Revolution, the Venetian Arsenal used an assembly line to build large merchant ships in as little as 24 hours, nearly 600 years before Ford.
9jd7 TIL that Harvard professor Roger Fisher proposed implanting nuclear launch codes in a volunteer so that the President would have to kill an innocent person before firing. The Pentagon rejected the idea fearing the President would not go through with it even if it was necessary.