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TIL that Punxsutawney Phil and his ancestors have an accuracy rate of 39% going back to 1887

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oQGY TIL A coronary bypass surgery in India costs around $1,583. The same procedure costs around $106,385 in the United States.
1aZMO TIL about Australia drifting so fast, GPS has to be corrected.
1anXV TIL Cambodian rock of the 1960s and 1970s was a thriving and prolific music scene, but was abruptly crushed by the Khmer Rouge communists in 1975, and many of its musicians disappeared or were executed during the ensuing Cambodian genocide.
P90G TIL that G-rated family films earn more money than any other rated films; however, only 4% of Hollywood’s output is G-rated.
GD4J TIL that Al Gore’s documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, was held by the British High Court to have nine errors in it, and cannot be shown in schools unless teachers point out the potentially problematic sections.