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TIL The concept of 1st, 2nd & 3rd World country was purely Geopolitical and had nothing to do with its economy.

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Bg6pr TIL that there is a single group of indigenous people, the Yupik, who lived in both the Americas and Eurasia (Russia) prior to European discovery of the new world.
690Bl TIL That A Mistake In Counting of Popes, due to a confusion on the Latin word 'domnus' an 'Domus' unintentionally Listed a fictional pope named "Donus II)
ppr8 TIL the US Federal government did a survey of employee satisfaction. NASA had the highest, while Dept of homeland security had the lowest.
V6DD TIL in 1996 a man named Larry Rutman hit himself in the head with a boomerang. He successfully sued himself for US$ 300,000, with the entire payout coming from his insurance
loEZa TIL about Gunner, Gunner was an Australian stray dog who helped the air-force in WW2. His hearing was so acute that he could detect Japanese planes twenty minutes before the arrived - and before they showed up on radar.