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TIL if the people of Planken, Liechtenstein exercised their constitutional right to secede, they would become the world's least populated nation (450 people) and the third smallest in area.

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e0xa6 TIL There was a research paper which claimed that people who jump out of an airplane with an empty backpack have the same chances of surviving as those who jump with a parachute. It only stated that the plane was grounded in the second part of the paper.
Z8AmQ TIL Ernst Röhm was a close friend of Hitler, a top Nazi leader, and a homosexual. Hitler was aware of Röhm's homosexuality. They were so close they addressed each other as du (German familiar form of "you"). No other top Nazi leader enjoyed that privilege.
QNgge TIL the Incas had a data storage/sharing device called "quipus" [kee-poos] in which cords of different colors and sizes were used to pass information down through generations by tying knots in them at different intervals. Unfortunately the ability to translate the data has been lost.
Z86lG TIL there is a blood sport known as Spider Fighting, where two spiders are placed on opposite ends of a stick and pushed towards the middle to fight one another. In 2002, inmates in a Florida prison got into a fight resulting in life threatening injuries over the theft of a pet fighting spider.
MeX10 TIL that George Lucas was one of the camera operators at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert where a fan was stabbed to death