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TIL that Tierra del Fuego, the remote southern tip of South America, once produced 90 percent of the air conditioners, cell phones, TVs and microwaves sold in Argentina

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gMMAL TIL That Russian criminal gang tattoos all have a meaning/purpose, such as Stalin across vital organs in the belief a firing squad would not shoot that image.
v1wXj TIL of the ‘Mass-Observation Diarists’ who were hundreds of volunteers in the U.K. during WWII who made regular diary entries. They wrote about the intimate details of their lives as well as their thoughts and feelings about the world around them. The result was an intimate portrait of British life.
EgOBP TIL that according to the CIA factbook, 12% of the world's languages are concentrated in Papua New Guinea, that contains more than 839 distinct languages.
M0km TIL in 1942 a RAF pilot dropped a huge French flag on the Arc de Triomphe in occupied Paris then raked the Gestapo’s hedquarters with 20mm shells.
m1mKo TIL scientists are studying whale bowel movements to figure out how much stress whales are experiencing