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TIL Iceland's median wealth per adult is 445k (in USD), nearly twice the value for the next highest country

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4Nj6 TIL of Anatoliy Golitsyn a KGB agent who defected to the US in 1961. He claimed the Soviets planned a long term deception strategy to lull the West into a false sense of security by appearing to break apart predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall, formation of the EU and financial problems in the US.
W7Q0Y TIL: that a town called Remote in the US state of Oregon is used as a placeholder for remote jobs in online job boards
nWy9B TIL that Eratosthenes, the man who calculated the circumference of the Earth, also calculated various dates of the Trojan war.
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