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TIL Singapore is the third wealthiest country in the world (based on per capita GDP).

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An0d TIL Tony Wild, the man who introduced Kopi Lewak (coffee found in the feaces of a species of south asian cat) to the west, launched a campaign to ban the product due to the massive cruelty in producing the coffee.
XEW9E TIL that we are in an interstellar space bubble where the density of gas is a lot less that the interstellar medium in the rest of the galaxy.
AGQa TIL if you die in Amsterdam without anyone attending your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your burial. A biography of their life is also written on their website for anyone to read. They are to remain unnamed.
P1mnZ TIL Volkswagen has been making sausage for over 50 years.
aLGA TIL During WW II Britain stopped selling food to Ireland in order to persuade them to drop neutrality and enter the war. Ireland responded by cutting off all exports of Guinness. The supplying of food was resumed.