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TIL that Democratic Republic of the Congo is considered THE richest country in the world regarding natural resources even though its citizens are among the poorest.

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aVaM TIL that in 1984, two tennis players had a 29-minute, 643-shot RALLY. It remains the longest in professional tennis history to this day.
5YPr TIL that Comedy Central only agreed to air the word “shit” uncensored in the South Park episode “It Hits the Fan” (the first South Park to do so) if the word was used an absurdly high number of times. The episode had 200 total shits- 162 spoken, 38 written.
16G4O TIL about the Maeshowe cairn, a neolithic chamber, which Vikings took refuge in during a storm in the 12th century, leaving behind one of the largest collection of runic graffiti. examples vary from "Haermund Hardaxe carved these runes" to a reference to Rangnar lothbrock
LQV0p TIL Hans Gruber, the villain of Die Hard who appears on numerous “greatest movie villains of all time” lists (AFI, Empire, etc.), was theater actor Alan Rickman's first film role.
yp0a TIL that in the first study to show hormonal bonding between humans and another species, it was found that staring into your dog’s eyes causes a rise in oxytocin - the same hormone that bonds human mothers to infants.