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TIL that Great Britain and Finland were the only European countries to participate in WW2 that weren't fully occupied

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bY1p TIL There could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs within the Milky Way.
epdrn TIL that the rainiest place on Earth is Mawsynram in northeastern India. It receives a whopping 12000 mm of rain per year (for comparison, Cardiff, Wales gets 1150mm).
5V7O8 TIL - Belgium went 589 days without a government
6XjJ TIL there is a disorder that is thought to be purely psychological called Pseudocyesis, where a woman shows all the symptoms of being pregnant except for the presence of a fetus. Their belly grows at the right rate and they can even go into false labour
OGZR4 TIL Muhammad is the most popular name in the world, by 2014 it was estimated to have been given to 150 million men and boys.