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TIL France is the only agriculturally self-sufficient country in Europe

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b6Or7 TIL that babies have a reasting heart rate of 100 to 160 BPM
VB7kk TIL there are more variants of the English language then just American English, British English, etc. These include South Atlantic English, which is an English variant from St Helena and Tristan da Cunha, as well as Antarctic English.
dDEXr TIL that the BGP, the protocol responsible for routing information across the internet is known as the three-napkin protocol because it was originally sketched out on the back of "three ketchup-stained napkins"
Og4R TIL on 10.12.10 a group know as “Imperial Stars” drove their bus down the Hollywood freeway, parked diagonally across the highway to stop traffic and perform their song “Traffic Jam 101” on the roof. A judge ordered them to pay $39,350.39 for their self centered idiocy.
yQ7Pa TIL of Freud's patient diagnosed with hysteria based on menstrual symptoms. A surgeon friend claimed he could cure it with nose surgery. Surgery botched, left her hemorrhaging and disfigured. Freud claimed her hemorrhage is "wish-bleeding" caused by a hysterical longing for the affection of others.