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TIL art competitions used to be a part of the Olympics Games.

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4X1AN TIL The average age of becoming a grandparent in the US is 50 years for women and a couple of years older for men. Most grandparents have multiple (5 to 6 on average) grandchildren
e87L TIL that the Pyongyang’s Global Happiness Ranking ranked North Korea the second happiest country on earth, behind only China (Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela rounded out the top 5). The United States was last.
d848Q TIL that the gun on the A10 Warthog fighter plane produces so much recoil that, if you pointed backwards and never ran out of ammo, you could use it to fly.
yQJZ8 TIL that Ecuador (GDP per capita is 1/6 of US) and Peru (GDP per capita is 1/4 of US) both maintain active research stations in Antarctica.
nemMG TIL Harper Lee and Truman Capote were childhood friends who wrote together after school. To Kill a Mockingbird’s character Dill is based on Capote. Lee was an “assistant researchist” for Capote to help write his book In Cold Blood. Both of them spent two months conducting interviews for the book.