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TIL that the EU visa application rejection is a profitable "business": +100M a year, 90% of it comes from African and Asian countries

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8aYa4 TIL that after WWII, a brief period of time, 1945 to 1952, was the only time when Japan was occupied by a foreign power in its entire history. Japan was under the sole control of the United States.
76OZ TIL that Steven Bradbury, an Australian short track speed skater, won an Olympic gold medal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics by cruising behind his opponents and waiting until they crashed during both the semifinal and the final.
7EpO TIL a researcher accidently killed one of the oldest tree ever (nicknamed “Prometheus”) in 1964. He got a tree corer stuck. A park ranger helped him to cut the tree down and remove the tool. Eventually, when he counted the tree rings, he realized that the felled tree was almost 5,000 years old.
DPov TIL in 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now.
MeyaK TIL that If you observe a a rainbow from an airplane (a glory), it will make a full circle, and you will always see the shadow of the plane in the center of the circle.