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TIL Nearly 37% of purchased Steam games are never played.

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7EXP TIL Finnish schools use a considerable amount of time to teach crafts and arts skills, like home economics, textiles, and woodwork. Unlike in other countries, where these subjects are treated as an awkward add-on, in Finland they have become a cornerstone of a child’s education.
nVDb TIL The Communist Party is the second largest political party in the Russian Federation
d8r17 TIL that the Yakuza is the second largest criminal organization in the world (by revenue), despite Japan being ranked 11th in worldwide population.
mxKlO TIL Dr. Robert Lopez, a vet, suspected a connection between cat ear mites and a child's rash, experimenting by transferring them into his left ear. "I heard scratching sounds... as the mites began to explore my ear canal." He repeated the experiment twice, and won the Ig Nobel Prize in entomology.
Kg56 TIL that purple paint on fences and trees means no trespassing in many states