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TIL the USA is the third-most populous country in the world

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YWEW TIL that in a 2002 Pepsi contest in Novosibirsk, Russia, someone who bought a bottle of Pepsi could win a car if they picked the right key from a set of choices. However, when a man was able to open it, Pepsi sued him since they made the contest impossible by not having the right key as a selection.
gDrb TIL there is no consensus on the definition of fascism. Authoritarianism is the only trait that is widely accepted as an innate characteristic of a fascist individual or regime.
Ddog TIL surveys in the U.S. & other countries show that college students continue to prefer printed textbooks to electronic ones by wide margins
Awxo TIL Martin Luther King’s doctoral thesis stole heavily from another dissertation - 45% of the first half and 21% of the second half of King’s thesis was plagiarized but his degree was not revoked
D1yLP TIL that Chinese lucky bamboo isn’t Chinese (from central Africa), and isn’t bamboo (it’s related to asparagus)