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TIL More than 55% of the Dutch people live outside of the Netherlands.

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dmW9 TIL Katy Perry’s music video for “Dark Horse” has been praised by Egyptologists for its accuracy to the Cleopatra myth.
BJwx TIL that there is a massive Easter Egg involving a hex code and a cypher hidden in the show Archer that hasn’t even come close to being cracked yet.
BgQOK TIL that the rumbling noise that you can make by tensing/contracting some muscles in your ears is caused by the Tensor Tympani muscle, which is a muscle that exists to dampen passive but loud sounds like fireworks, chewing or yelling.
nWK4G TIL that Nickelodeon was a slang term for early movie theaters in the early 1900s. It comes from Odeion meaning theater in Greek and they cost a Nickel to get in.
Y7X5Z TIL Walter Johnson’s record of 3508 career strikeouts stood for nearly 50 years before 3 different pitchers (Ryan, Carlton, & Perry) each broke the record in the 1983 season.