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TIL in Denmark parents of newborn babies have to choose a name from a government approved list of 7,000 names.

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Z8KZo TIL When Japanese prime minister Keizō Obuchi was a young man and short on money, he travelled to thirty-eight countries, completely circumnavigating the globe and taking odd jobs as he went. These included being a dishwasher, an assistant aikido instructor and a TV camera crew assistant in Berlin
dbvZ TIL that a man named Armand Hammer coincidentally ended up on the board of directors for Arm & Hammer
X0KAQ TIL The largest population of hamsters is found in Grand Central Cemetery in Vienna, Austria.
QBOk TIL Stanislav Petrov, made the decision not to fire at the United States after a faulty report from the Russian missile detection system that a nuke had been fired, what probably prevented WWIII
yJ6X TIL a test pilot for the Boeing 707 airplane prototype performed a roll in front of the audience attending an international airline summit in Seattle. When asked what he was doing by his boss, he replied “selling airplanes.”