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TIL the country with the most favorable view of the US is the Philippines, as of July 2013

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VMAj8 TIL In 2011 Samoa skipped from being the last to first country to see the sun each day. So now they celebrate New year's first. They did it to be more inline with NZ & Australia for commercial reasons
OAG7 TIL: That Tupac’s last words, when asked by the police who shot him, were “Fuck you.”
b9r6N TIL when Japanese ultranationalists and militaries attempted a coup in 1932 they intended to also kill Charlie Chaplin
nev0d TIL that 'Ishi' was not the real name of the 'last wild Indian', but simply means 'man'. Traditionally, in Yahi culture, one would not speak one's name until formally introduced by someone else. But there were no other Yahi to say Ishi's name.
pAW8 TIL a man in France impersonated a government official, and managed to sell the Eiffel Tower not once, but twice.