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TIL: According to information from the California-based Wine Institute, tiny Vatican City consumes more wine per capita than any other country.

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drQK TIL that Thomas Edison taught his second wife Morse code so they could communicate in secret by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was around
x6V8o TIL Abraham Lincoln was a dual citizen of the United States and the tiny country of San Marino. He accepted honorary Sammarinese citizenship after recognizing them as a nation, saying “Although your dominion is small, your State is nevertheless one of the most honored, in all history."
ePGn TIL in 2009 three police officers earned over $300,000 a year in Clarkstown NY, one of the safest towns in the country.
OGBrY TIL scientists made a computer model and concluded that giraffes would perform poorly compared to other mammals and are hence likely to avoid swimming if possible.
ORBL TIL the Black Death arrived in Norway on a ghost ship that just so happened become beached near a major port. Even tho all the crew had died the surviving rats and flees managed to spread the disease throughout the country and later to Sweeden and Russia.