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TIL I learned Myanmar has the most public holidays of any country in the world with a 32 public holidays a year. With Mexico and Wales the least at 8.

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ANpww TIL that Ryan Gosling was in a band called Dead Man's Bones and they released an album in 2009
j6oeN TIL Cotton candy is called "old lady's hair" in India and Greece.
1a8kr TIL a power plant in Lanai, Hawaii generates electric via diesel trains, still on the tracks.
RPNl TIL that a lost masterpiece by Da Vinci is likely hidden behind a wall in Florence, but nobody is willing to take the wall down because it ALSO has a priceless fresco painted on it.
XEGr6 TIL Concorde burned up 94 tonnes of fuel getting from London to New York and a whopping 2 tonnes simply taxiing onto the runway