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TIL that Kazakhstan is Europe's 14th-largest country by area, larger than 37 European countries (including Greece, Bulgaria, Iceland, Hungary, Portugal, or Austria) - even though almost 95% of the country is in Asia

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bBgp TIL Alaska is “America’s Rape Capital,” where 37% of women report being sexually assaulted at least once in their lives.
JYLKv TIL that, in Huangluo, the average hair length of the 120 women is 1,7 meters : they only cut their hair once in their life (at age 16) and the remains are attached to their current growing strands, along with their daily fallings strings of hair.
LjJ0 TIL that it wasn’t until the 1930s that production techniques improved to the point where toilet paper could be advertised as “splinter free”.
976X TIL Plastic dishes can’t absorb enough heat to evaporate water, which is why the dishwasher dry cycle doesn’t work on them
51Gn TIL after seeing Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin sent Jack Gleeson (the actor who plays Joffrey) a personal letter stating “Congratulations on your marvelous performance, everyone hates you.”