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TIL that Slovenia has the most Tractors per capita in the world with 54.2 per 1,000 people

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Qm6a TIL Bill Skarsgard (Pennywise from It), Alexander Skarsgard (Tarzan from The legend of Tarzan) and Gustaf Skarsgard (Floki from Vikings) are the sons of Stellan Skarsgard (Erik Selvig from Thor, Good will Hunting).
rNlGo TIL that in the late nineteenth century, a doctor sold anal plugs as medical devices and praised rectal dilation as a cure for insanity, chronic constipation, headaches, foul breath, and numerous other ailments.
OGn6 TIL That if you received a Mole of pennies at birth and spent 1 million dollars a second until you were 100, you would still have more than 99.99% of your money in the bank.
VBAAk TIL of the Lake Peigneur Giant Sinkhole Disaster of 1980, in which a drilling platform accidentally struck the side of a salt mine, causing the mine to rapidly dissolve and as it swallowed the entire 3.5 billion gallons of water
j6rMa TIL in 1847, a doctor performed an amputation so quickly that he amputated his assistant’s fingers as well as slashing the coat of a spectator. The patient and assistant died of gangrene, and the spectator died of shock, resulting in the only known surgical procedure with a 300% mortality rate