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TIL Norway can live off investments from its oilfund for “decades, centuries, possibly forever”

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WkeyB TIL the US has only tested a cumulative total of 2,000 people for coronavirus in the past 2 months. Meanwhile Korea is testing 10,000 people per day and UK has tested almost 20,000 people since the virus started.
8a7jb TIL Sir Alec Guiness HATED his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film," calling the dialog "lamentable." An autograph seeker told him he'd seen the movie over 100 times; he gave him an autograph on the condition he never see the movie again.
d8AAK TIL that in 1969, the University of Washington broke up a student protest by having some farmers "accidentally" release angry bees.
dVmQ TIL That 5,382 British Royal Marines held off 13,749 French and Spanish troops for 7 months after being told they would be relieved.
44do TIL The character Mark Healy from Roseanne not only could do a dead on impersonation of Grover and Christopher Walken, but also died at the age of 32.