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TIL only 14 of the 193 countries in the UN formally recognize Taiwan as a separate state from China .

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BGyy TIL after the movie ‘Office Space’ came out, creator Mike Judge said T.G.I. Fridays got rid of all that (button) flair, because people would come in and make cracks about it. He believed he “maybe made the world a better place” because of this.
m18kP TIL Ethiopia uses a different calendar. They have 13 months, the last month being either five or six days. And, it's still 2014 there.
xVA7B TIL Capital punishment has only been imposed twice in the history of the state of Israel, one was a mistake the other was Adolf Eichmann
9ABQ TIL Iraq still uses bomb detecting devices that are nothing more than a modern day dowsing rod and have been proven fake. They were purchased for around 85 million.
QdEX TIL that in Lego, Lord Voldemort minifigure is one of the few that has a nose