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TIL that Greece is worse off now than the US was in the peak of the Great Depression.

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Gdv5 TIL that an acronym is if you pronounce letters in the abbreviation as if they were a word. If you read the letters in the abbreviation individually, they are called “initialisms”
8anZa TIL that Mortal Kombat 3 was the only Game Boy game ever to be rated M by the ESRB
MeZn0 TIL France and Brazil had a "war" over lobsters
5K9n TIL new queen bees make a “piping” sound to announce their presence to other queens in the hive – and signal their intent to kill them all.
oBxPr TIL Pluto is still legally considered a planet when it passes over New Mexico