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TIL when Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, it’s internet domain name went from ’.yu’ to ’.me’

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KYNRQ TIL: 60 to 80 percent of marriages among professional athletes end in divorce.
1OxO TIL Back when the NYC Subway used tokens, people called “token suckers” would jam token slots with paper and suck out stuck tokens with their mouths. To prevent this, some attendants would sprinkle chili powder into the slots.
yVJOw TIL it’s been estimated that 99.9% of all species that are lived in the past are extinct.
woVg8 TIL during a preview of the Sistine Chapel paintings, one of the Pope's men criticized all the "disgraceful" nudity. So Michaelangelo painted the critic's likeness into the Last Judgement, wearing nothing but a snake that's biting his dick.
kJBJ5 TIL London City Airport isn't British owned. It is owned by Alberta and Ontario, Canada, and the Royal Family of Kuwait.