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TIL Africa is bigger than the USA, China, India, Europe and Japan combined. Pretty hard to tell just by looking at a map. This one really puts it into perspective!

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Pxmw TIL Tycho Brahe had a tame elk. It died by drinking too much beer at a dinner and falling down some stairs.
16R9r TIL that the Nobel Peace Prize comes with almost 1 million USD
neY5Y TIL about Poncke Princen, a Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who was later sent to Indonesia to suppress an anticolonial rebellion. Princen, after witnessing Dutch war crimes, defected to fight with the guerrillas in 1948. He later helped expose the anticommunist massacres of Indonesian dictator Suharto.
MeoGa TIL Artie Lange was paid $140k in one night to perform two shows at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas during Super Bowl week 2007, his highest paid stand up gig at that point. After gambling, hookers, and drugs, he spent $145k that trip.
WkXAN TIL Pamela Anderson’s appearance in the movie Borat was a major contributor to her divorce with Kid Rock as he felt it was disgusting she would volunteer to be in such a film.