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TIL that the largest export from Columbia to the US is not coffee but crude petroleum.

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Kavw TIL That a friendly exchange between an American and Chinese player in the 1971 World Ping-Pong Championship prompted Mao Zedong to invite the American table-tennis to China, helping re-open Sino-American relations for the first time since the cold war.
wL99W TIL that the last notable author to make the Catholic Church's "banned books" list was Simone de Beauvoir. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was discontinued no sooner than 1966.
gxm9 TIL Norway’s rainy day fund is approaching $1 trillion, or about $700,000 for a family of 4, thanks to prudent investment of oil revenue, directed by an “ethical council”.
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