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TIL According to a 2011 North Korean government study; China is the world’s happiest nation, followed by North Korea. “The American Empire” came in last.

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RDn7 TIL that US, Canadian and Australian consumption of cannabis per capita is more than double that of the Dutch, despite it being legal in Netherlands.
M7MLb TIL Richard Stallman who represents and speaks for open source software, such as software components of Android phones, has visited China and is a critic of spy programs.
0dey5 TIL after tigers escaped from a zoo in Georgia and killed a man, advice was issued on what to do if you meet a tiger, including: don’t approach it, don’t run away, and don’t urinate
N71mM TIL Newton kept an encrypted list of sins in his private diary which was partially decoded only in 1964
69AvX TIL in the medieval era a popular legend regarding the purpose behind the building of the pyramids was to protect all the knowledge of the world from being lost in the great flood. they were constructed some 300 years before the flood by either the prophet Enoch or Hermes