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TIL the nation of Sweden’s official “@Sweden” Twitter account is given to a different citizen every week to manage

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6EbMY TIL a person who prioritizes calling "Shotgun" more than a normal person, to the degree that they'll compromise their own ethics to gain the front seat, is known pejoratively as a "Shotgun Gaper."
rRr0 TIL Craigslist makes its money by charging $25 for job postings in six of its largest U.S. markets, $75 for job listings in San Francisco, and by assessing a $10 fee for brokered apartment listings in New York City.
0d58y TIL of the Rüsselsheim massacre. In 1944, 6 American surrendered airmen were lynched by German townsfolk angered by previous bombing raids. The perpetrators were tried and many executed after the war.
QNV6p TIL the first exoplanet was only discovered in 1992
l7Ll5 TIL about this monkey who learned to run on his legs after losing a limb