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TIL there are 78 cities in the world with the population larger than the entire country of Finland

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p8m8b TIL several states in the U.S. have been considering reimplementing the firing squad as a means of execution, because the drugs for lethal injections have been getting harder to acquire, the firing squad often causes a very quick death, and it has historically had a low rate of botched executions.
wr1E TIL an exotic dancer was busted by the IRS for failing to pay income tax on 1 million dollars in income she received in exchange for sex, from a single man.
kJvK1 TIL the earliest description of the heliocentric model dates back to Ancient Greece. Aristarchus of Samos (c.310–c.230 BC) described the Earth spinning on its axis once per day and orbiting a fixed Sun. He also thought that stars were other suns much further away.
ZMwR TIL the term “piss poor” originally referred to families who literally had to sell their own urine to make money.
xVYnb TIL that there was a youth movement against the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany.