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TIL that there is a pharmaceutical company in Denmark that has a higher market cap than Denmark's entire GDP

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R6r7 TIL that in 1788 during the Austro–Turkish War, the Austrian army accidentally attacked itself after an alcohol-fueled conflict heard shouts of “Turks! Turks!” even though none were around. This resulted in 10,000 casualties and losses.
65XQ TIL of a now closed down amusement park that responsible for at least 6 peoples deaths. They even had to offer it’s own employees a hundred dollars to test out one of the waterslides.
Lw4r TIL the Nazis considered Native Americans to be part of the Aryan race.
QNdxE TIL that there’s a planet mostly made from diamond. The alien planet, a so-called "super-Earth," is called 55 Cancri e and was discovered in 2004 around a nearby star in our Milky Way galaxy.
4AjN TIL it is against the law for supermarkets, department stores, and other big box stores in Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachusetts to be open on Thanksgiving.