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TIL that Ethiopia was the only African country that was never colonized

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l7MdA TIL China built bootleg versions of many European cities, such as Paris (Tianducheng)
7rZyX TIL That, of 195 countries on earth, England has invaded 177 of them.
0d7dL TIL that, despite media portrayals to the contrary, young adults tend to make highly rational decisions when it comes to selecting potential romantic partners
gMeNW TIL that in the last 7 years craters started to appear in the Siberian Tundra, similar to the craters that form by cryovolcanism on the Saturn's moon Enceladus.
jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.