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TIL of the Big Mac Index, which helps explain purchasing power parity to the layman. You compare the price of a Big Mac in one country to the price in another to determine if exchange rates are overvalued.

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rRmj1 TIL A company in India illegally dumping waste in the Mumbai River in India were cought when the waste was turning local stray dogs blue
wBa8 TIL Saturday morning cartoons vanished in the 2000’s largely due to the “Children’s TV Act” requiring stations to have 3 hours of educational/informational (E/I) programming per week. To avoid the stations affiliates scheduling the E/I during their weekday shows, Saturday morning’s took the hit.
m1Yyp Today I learned that upper class women in the Tudor era exposed their breast for fashion. Even Elizabeth was known to greet the French ambassador with her entire breast exposed according to one article by Louis Montrose. It is even documented she would sometimes have her belly exposed as well!
YpZdd TIL that the largest cave in the world is Hang Soon Doong and is located in Vietnam and it could contain an entire city with 40-story skyscrapers and in contains a large underground forest that was able to grow and developed thanks to skylights created by the collapse of parts of its vault.
EgDaV TIL there is a firm sequence of adjectives in English that native speakers use but rarely know about. The order is opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose. For instance you would say “small red Japanese commuter car” not “commuter Japanese red small car”.