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TIL that the current unemployment rate in Greece is 27%. During the Great Depression, the US unemployment rate peaked at 24.9%.

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4kr9w TIL that between 1974 and 1990, North Korea tried to dig 4 tunnels under the Demilitarized Zone and when South Korea discovered them, North Korea painted their walls black and pretended they were coal mines.
8ablP TIL that in 2008 famous DJ deadmau5 missed a flight in Spain just seconds after the jet bridge was closed, upsetting the DJ because he was late for another show. The air plane barely took off before crashing and killing 152 people
WkY0d TIL The story that the Titanic engineers remained inside the ship till the end to keep the electricity running didn’t actually happen
XgYR TIL that the Earth’s oceans absorb 25% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released into the atmosphere every year. However, because of the increasing amounts of CO2 into the world’s atmosphere, the world’s oceans are slowly turning acidic.
Rra6 TIL The Apollo Missions’ flags was made by Sears, but NASA refused to acknowledge this because they didn’t want “another Tang.”