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TIL that the modern United States of America is considered a 'Hyperpower' having eclipsed the status of a Superpower.

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Wk8v9 TIL Tommy Chong’s daughter Rae Dawn Chong discovered actor Chris Pratt working as a waiter at a Bubba Gump restaurant and cast him in a film.
KodG TIL Starvation can produce profound mental clarity. In one case a starving WWII POW became conversant in Norwegian in a single week.
KaWE TIL that in some countries, it’s not illegal to escape prison providing no other laws are broken, as it’s human nature to want to escape.
p8rLA TIL about Richard Francis Burton, a British "explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat." He spoke 29 languages, translated the Kama Sutra, and shocked Victorian England with his essays about homosexuality.
BRdk TIL in Chios, Greece each year a ‘fireworks war’ is held by two nearby towns, where the objective is to hit each others town bell.