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TIL Venezuela had the world’s 4th highest GDP per capita in 1950; trailing only the United States, Switzerland, and New Zealand.

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9edB TIL that the countries with the highest rates of female in management positions are Russia, Latvia and Indonesia, while the lowest are the US, the UK, Spain, Denmark and Germany
ADxLw TIL of Planet Nine - A hypothetical, 10x Earth-sized planet within our solar system that orbits around the sun every 15k years. This hypothesis is currently supported by Jim Green, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and professor Tom Levenson of MIT.
yV778 TIL that VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program, was also the first "killer app" (a program that makes people buy a computer just to run the software). VisiCalc was so revolutionary, and so powerful, that people bought the $2000 Apple II (the only computer it ran on) to run the $100 application.
OLoe TIL that German internet users have a 17-year-old meme where they pretend the town of Bielefeld (330,000) does not exist
78OeM TIL that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned in large part due to a speech in which he said the reason for underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due to genetics