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TIL Sweden is the third-largest music exporter in the world behind the US and UK.

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Mwb TIL there are only 27 people in recorded history who have reached the age of 115
J16bm TIL that in the United Kingdom, there is a section of a river called the Strid. It seems unassuming at hardly six feet wide, but at certain points the Strid reaches over 200 feet in depth. Air bubbles lowering the water's average density, you would sink like a rock into the violent currents below.
e0vxn TIL that a French surgeon first started wearing blue scrubs during surgery in 1914 because he discovered it reduced eye strain for doctors working endless hours during WWI. "Ciel Blue" became standard once surgery was videotaped in the 1970s and white scrubs conflicted with the white lights.
k4w4 TIL Will Ferrell did a commercial for the Superbowl in 2012 for free. It aired in only one town in Nebraska.
49r5 TIL every time Pac-Man eats a regular dot, he stops moving for one frame (1/60th of a second), slowing his progress by roughly ten percent—just enough for a following ghost to overtake him.