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TIL that Lesotho is a country entirely surrounded by South Africa, and it's known as the "Kingdom in the Sky" because of its high altitude.

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grd5D TIL between January 1995 and June 2005, Swiss citizens voted 31 times, on 103 federal questions besides many more cantonal and municipal questions. During the same period, French citizens participated in only two referendums.
e1kE TIL Ghostbusters was written over 3 weeks in a bomb shelter on an island off Massachusetts.
aw0WA TIL PT Barnum bought a blind, elderly slave with a shrunken appearance and toured the country with her while claiming she was 161 years old and had breastfed George Washington when he was a baby. When she died, Barnam then sold her to a surgeon and had her autopsy performed live on Broadway.
kbye TIL that the mp3 format will be almost totally patent-free on December 31, 2017
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