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TIL that the Republic of Nepal has given no names to its seven provinces, only serial numbers.

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9wMbr TIL that Skoda test their car horns 150,000 times for the European car market. For the Indian market the horns are tested 500,000 times due to the increased use of car horns in India. One study carried out at major intersections in Indian cities found that a horn sounds every three seconds.
oRxeW TIL Barings bank, the bank that later collapsed due to Nick Lesson, helped to finance the Louisiana Purchase
XXk TIL the only reason Nirvana smashed their instruments was so they wouldn’t have to play an encore
nepOW TIL that much of the "small-penis porn" subgenre features guys who are actually about average size, or even bigger.
GAl8N TIL Almost every culture on Earth has a similar myth about the Pleiades star cluster, and it's probably because that myth is 100,000 years old, when there were 7, not 6, stars visible to the naked eye.