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TIL that Windows 10 wallpaper isn’t CGI but used with real window pane and some smoke effect with cool lighting.

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ND6Q TIL that in 1987, Myanmar lowered its official literacy rate from 79% to 19% in order to qualify for least developed country status to receive UN debt relief.
9YOOp TIL that the future King Henry V of England took an arrow in the face at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403), fighting beside his father when he was only 16 years old. Despite the terrible wound, he kept fighting and later recovered. Turns out he was a badass long before invading France.
RGe4 TIL that, uniquely, the Norwegian special territory of Svalbard is an entirely visa-free zone. No person is required visa or residence permit, and anyone may live and work in Svalbard indefinitely, regardless of citizenship.
Z8w6v TIL that there is a "Name of the Year Award". Past winners include Leo Moses Spornstarr, Crescent Dragonwagon, Amanda Miranda Panda, Shamus Beaglehole, and Vanilla Dong.
kyMd TIL John Harrison - the only person to be both the child (William Henry Harrison) and the parent (Benjamin Harrison) of U.S. Presidents.