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TIL Only 19 countries are considered "full democracies" including Uruguay and Mauritius. Countries like France, Italy and the USA are considered "Flawed Democracies"

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LPxP TIL Denmark’s current flag design was first used in 1219. No other modern country has used its flag for so long.
p8yrO TIL A tankette is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle that resembles a small tank, roughly the size of a car. It is mainly intended for light infantry support and scouting. Some were so low that the occupant had to lie prone.
1DQO TIL With the release of Windows 95, Microsoft couldn’t figure out how to make the system more intuitive for people to use, and they hired a trained behavioral psychologist who would then create the solution: the Start button.
G5o5 TIL Peanut butter in a plastic jar at the supermarket usually has a sell-by date of about 18 months after it hits the shelf. Past this date, if it’s unopened it’s still perfectly good. Opened, peanut butter will slowly develop off-flavors of rancid nuts over the next five or so years.
LkxaV TIL Two nuclear weapons lay on the Arctic seabed inside a sunken submarine.