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TIL that Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side of the road all in one day

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R7kAj TIL that after Prussia had it’s army limited to 42,000 men, the King of Prussia enrolled that number of permitted men for a year, then dismissed them and enrolled another group of the same size for the next year, and so on, eventually resulting in having an army of 420,000 trained men
nW8pB TIL Chinese company Tencent shut down Korean video game PUBG and replaced it with “Game for Peace” in which defeated players wave goodbye and disappear instead of lying down and dying
Jo9B TIL the “bar” in Law, isn’t just the name of the exam. It refers to the physical gated wall in a courtroom dividing the lawyers and judges from the general viewing public. “Passing the bar” gains you admittance to work on the other side of the wall.
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