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TIL the most successful Eurovision artist is Canadian. (Céline Dion - winner 1988)

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Xl4D TIL Isaac Asimov once said: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our life, nurtured by the notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
P1QNL TIL: There are only 3 countries in the world whos flags are not rectangular. Switzerland and Vatican City have square flags, and Nepal's flag isn't even a quadrilateral.
VM7jm TIL that Kowloon City was one of the most crowded places on earth for 40 straight years
epK6E TIL the word 'genericisation', when a brand name and the product have become so common and popular that it instead comes to represent the entire product category. E.g. Hoover, Bacardi, Tannoy
4XDMJ TIL that the Police Service of Northern Ireland was almost given the acronym of NIPS