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TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness beer than any other country.

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16x68 TIL when German-occupied Denmark held the 1943 Folketing election, the Danish Nazi Party only won 3 seats.
gMXBL TIL that during WWI in Germany, horses were considered army reservists; owners had to register them regularly, and the army kept detailed records on the locations of all horses. In the first weeks of the war, the German army mobilized 715,000 horses.
gM04W TIL 80 to 90 percent of high school graduates in Singapore are myopic. The same is true in China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea— all places where kids now spend far more time hunched over a desk or computer than did previous generations. Half the world could need glasses by 2050
XEnWr TIL that around 7 billion chicks are culled per year in the egg industry. Chick culling is the process of separating and disposing of unwanted chicks because they're of no use. It occurs in all industrialised egg production whether free range, organic, or battery cage.
1YZP TIL the Opposite of a ‘Vicious Cycle’ is called a 'Virtuous Cycle.’ It is used to describe When Positive events or changes cause more and more positive events in a cascading effect.