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TIL California has a higher GDP than all of Africa combined.

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6Ee5Y TIL on October 13, 2016, a man high on LSD, Michael Orchard from Halfmoon, NY, drove through his neighbours' fence, broke their glass door and stole their dog, hallucinating that the neighbours' house was burning and he was saving the canine. He then peacefully handed the dog to police officers.
78lNp TIL of Richard Stern, a German-Jewish WW1 veteran and subject of a famous photo, where he stands in the door of his shop wearing his old Iron Cross during the Nazi crackdown on Jewish businesses. Fleeing to the U.S., he joined the Army at age 43 to fight the Nazis. He was awarded a Silver Star
jNgeE TIL the electricity used by the clock radio on the microwave ovens and such are call Vampire Electricity and the clock radio itself is referred to as Phantom loads.
b9VDp TIL there is a species of sheep that survives completely on seaweed. on the island of north ronaldsay in scotland, a wall was built around the island to protect crops from sheep grazing, limiting them to the shoreline where they have adapted to survive.
D1GJ TIL that VLC has a keyboard shortcut that lets you fix out of sync audio. Best feature ever.