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TIL Sweden has the most islands in the world.

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0donR TIL poker players used to call an off-suit Ace-King an "Anna Kournikova". This is for two reasons: first is that it's her initials, and much like Anna herself, an off-suit AK looks really good but rarely ever wins.
GA5Zg TIL New York City no longer has rooftop helipads due to an accident in 1977 that claimed the lives of five people
9kg6 TIL That Carrie Fisher never wore a bra in the first Star Wars movie at the request of George Lucas. He explained to her that in space, her flesh would expand, but her bra wouldn’t, so she would be strangled by her bra.
4XY4a TIL In the '70s UK singer Nick Lowe desperately wanted out of his record contract and so recorded an intentionally awful and ridiculous song called 'Bay City Rollers We Love You'. It was a massive hit with Roller fans who didn't realize it was a spoof song and Lowe had to continue in his contract
JY6Wk TIL that it was Hasbro, an American multinational toy company that coined the term “Action Figure”, to market their G.I. Joe toys to boys who would not play with “dolls”