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TIL: The US has a higher poverty rate than Vietnam

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AKln TIL that Sarah Jessica Parker’s second line in the 1994 movie Ed Wood is “Do I really have a face like a horse?”
k0y4 TIL Switzerland has forbidden people from keeping lone guinea pigs because the animals are sociable and need each other’s company
b6JQ4 TIL in the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvos from Sweden in a deal worth $70 million. After delivering the vehicles, North Korea never paid for the cars, resulting in the largest car theft in human history.
EVKd TIL Egypt sued the Jews for the property they “borrowed” before the exodus in the court of Alexander the great the jews countersued for 400+ years of unpaid wages for 600,000 men and the egyptians promptly dropped the case
1aPyW TIL that the Apollo 11 landing site was chosen purely for technical and safety reasons, which is why the famous footage takes place on a mostly featureless plain. Later Apollo missions landed in valleys, next to canyons, and at the foot of mountains.