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TIL that Ireland is ranked 5th in GDP per capita (PPP) and the highest among real countries. The only countries ahead of it are city states: Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Singapore.

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l7Boa TIL that the song “I Just Had Sex” by The Lonely Island is played “unironically” in public in countries such as Vietnam and Thailand; bandmate Akiva Schaffer noting “The nuance…would be lost if English wasn’t your first language”
kOPp7 TIL most Japanese schools do not employ janitors. The Japanese education system believes that requiring students to clean the school themselves teaches respect, responsibility, and equality
kpO5 TIL that, in 200 BCE, Eratosthenes measured the Earth’s circumference to an accuracy of 98.4% by measuring the angle of the sun in two different cities
AMja TIL There’s a series of books called, “Chronicles of the Shadow War” which is co-written by George Lucas which is a continuation of the film “Willow.”
e0ZK5 TIL that Harry Houdini’s first public performance was at age 9 as a trapeze artist, billing himself as “Ehrich Prince of the Air“