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TIL Phantom of the Opera is the top-grossing piece of entertainment of all time. It has earned $5.6 billion during it’s 10,000+ performance run.

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m1YKv TIL Ngerulmud, Palau is the least populous national capital in the world, with a population less than half of that of the Vatican.
xV0xB TIL that the reason so many African flags have green, yellow and red is because of the Ethiopian flag; as one of the few independent African nations during the colonial period, the new countries of Africa looked to them for inspiration
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