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TIL that, if it were an independent country, California would have the fifth-largest economy in the world.

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rMWw TIL North Korea had a propaganda YouTube video taken down for using copyrighted Call of Duty footage.
yVbgX TIL there's a new metabolic surgery that mitigates the effects of diabetes in patients that is being done in Mexico (Surgery does not cure diabetes but it does control it.)
Pk9E TIL there is an AI called Melomics which has written over 1,000,000,000 songs since July 2012 without human intervention
BrPDd TIL of the battle of Central station where 5,000 soliders refused to do extra duty and walked off camp, crowded trains bound for Sydney where they were joined by 10,000 more soliders and spent the rest of the day raiding pubs and turning over fruit carts.
5YMlP TIL that In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a four-day conflict that cost thousands of lives and displaced thousands more in the aftermath of a Football game. The struggle is still remembered as the football war.