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TIL that Luxembourg has more foreigners than locals, having the highest proportion of foreign-born residents to locals than other European countries. Most of the foreigners are Portuguese.

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pjBp TIL that there is a highway in Russia known as the Road of Bones, as the skeletons of the forced laborers who died during its construction were used in much of its foundations
W7vn8 TIL that in the US, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less. Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling once a year or less.
VDE0 TIL of the Bugis, an ethnic group in Indonesia whose society recognises five genders. Four are comparable to cis/trans male/female respectively, while the fifth, bissu, transcends gender.
9wDPG TIL: 1993’s Macarena (which inspired one of largest dance crazes in history) song lyrics are about a girl who cheats on her boyfriend when he enlists in the military by having a ménage à trois with two other men.
wLoBJ TIL Tom Cruise had Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Leah Remini and others over at his house and tried to play hide-and-seek with them, going so far as to run off into 3 acres of land