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TIL I learned that The Gambia uses marbles instead of paper ballots for elections

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GWkj TIL that only 5% of the world’s population has flown on an airplane.
kJaN7 TIL that nearly 16,000 COVID cases went unreported in England because Public Health England used a legacy .xls Excel spreadsheet file that can only handle up to 65536 rows to record cases instead of a proper database.
NMZb TIL a Russian equivalent of “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” is “Catch the bear before you sell his skin”
N7OEP TIL the sequence 123456 does not appear in the first million digits of PI
xVYL0 TIL in 2009 Astronaut and lunar explorer Buzz Aldrin teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to release a song celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission