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TIL that a German TV show called Sandmännchen is the longest running animated show in history with 22,200 episodes released since 1959.

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rNJwy TIL that Mongolia,with a population of 3.5 million,is the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state and largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to roughly half of the country's population.
v1KXr TIL 1/3 of all internet traffic from the U.S. to Asia passes through a single skyscraper in Downtown Los Angeles, where 260 ISPs lease space for interconnected networks.
W7kno TIL that the Hollywood Reporter published a column in 1937 criticizing actors for speaking out against Nazi Germany. The newspaper's managing editor chided stars who he said were courting "unpopularity" by speaking out against Hitler's regime.
5N19 TIL Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting and mathematical correlation. He also suggested that principles of animal breeding could be applied to humans, coined the word ‘eugenics’, and came up with the 'nature vs nurture’ idea.
ogAo TIL a factory worker saved 34 lives from the 9-story Rana Plaza collapse. Against all warnings, he climbed inside the rubble to pull people to safety. When a doctor was too afraid to go in to amputate the limbs of some that were trapped, the worker took a knife and did it himself to save them.