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TIL In Denmark it is considered in very bad taste and down right rude to boast about, or do anything that draws attention to yourself.

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x61jD TIL a 2017 study found that people who watch porn daily were less likely to get a divorce than those who never watch porn
Y7aPW TIL Singapore imports so much sand that Indonesia has actually lost islands- Indonesia counts its islands before it's too late
YeKP TIL In the 1980’s an X-Ray machine was in use that randomly killed patients with overdoses of radiation due to a programming error.
PYxxg TIL of Mercedes de Acosta, a writer who had many salacious love affairs with famous women in the 1920s and 30s, including Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo. She reportedly claimed, “I can get any woman away from any man.”
8ag7Z TIL 26-yr-old Henry David Thoreau accidentally set fire to over 300 acres of forest where he was to build his famous Walden Pond shack when he & his buddy failed to beat back flames from the fire they set to cook fish they'd caught. Townsfolk called Thoreau a “damned rascal” & “a flibbertigibbet.”