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TIL bananas have more trade regulations than AK-47s
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TIL there IS a price for happiness, or rather for avoiding unhappiness! Researchers found that a salary of $105K allows US residents to eliminate financial woes as a source of unhappiness. But the US ranks 10th globally. Who has the highest income satiation point, aka price for happiness? Bermuda!
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TIL of Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African and mental calculator. When asked how many seconds a man has lived in 70 years 17 days & 12 hours, he replied 2,210,500,800. When told he was wrong, Fuller said "massa, you forget de leap year", which was correct once the seconds of the leap years were added
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TIL of the Commando Order, issued in secret by Hitler; it stated that all Allied commandos encountered by German forces in Europe and Africa should be killed immediately without trial, even in proper uniforms or if they attempted to surrender.
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TIL in 1999 Gaston Glock, inventor of the Glock pistol, suspected Charles Ewert, his closest adviser had been embezzling funds. Glock confronted Ewert, who then hired an assassin named Spartacus, to murder Glock who was able to fight back, by punching the assassin until he collapsed on top of Glock.
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TIL that the word “dude” is actually a Scottish word, from ‘duddies’