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TIL Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein are the only “doubly landlocked” countries in the world

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pYRYA TIL about the Muammar Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, which was created by the eponymous dictator to “bestow tribute upon symbolic figures of struggle and faith in the values of freedom to all humans”. The first recipient was Nelson Mandela.
R4W7 TIL A cat’s brain is more similar to a man’s brain than that of a dog.
8axeP TIL of Helen Gandy who was Edgar Hoover's secretary for 54 years. The day of his death, she resigned and destroyed all of his personal FBI files that he used to manipulate key Washington figures.
BgvxW TIL that Ray Kurzweil, famous for his futuristic predictions about singularity, is the same Kurzweil who founded a famous "Kurzweil Music Systems" company that produces electronic musical instruments
LkZr9 TIL that during siege of Aztec capital Tenochtitlan Conquistadors were joined by more than 100 000 native allies who all feared and hated Aztecs