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TIL The prince of Liechtenstein threatened to pack up and leave his country and live in Austria if voters had rejected proposals that would have extended his powers in a 2003 referendum.

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Oo714 TIL the US has a higher percentage of people who have a 4 year college degree compared to any European country
X7Oj TIL in 1988 Cosmopolitan claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
NMRb TIL the Taj Mahal was covered with a huge scaffold during WW2 to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboo and misguide any enemy bombers. (It was also disguised again in 1971!)
NXbEN TIL The chief executive of Royal Albert Hall was furious about The Beatles lyric stating, "the wrong-headed assumption that there are four thousand holes in our auditorium threatened to destroy its business overnight."
EPMd TIL that the US could save $300-$600 million per year by switching to $1 coin instead of paper