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TIL Americans pay 38 times as much as the Japanese for Internet data.

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N7Oa8 TIL less than 10% of blind people can read Braille
jKGa TIL Don King has killed two men. He shot one in the back who had robbed his illegal gambling house and later stomped an employee to death over $600. He was convicted of murder and later pardoned after Jessie Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and several others wrote letters to Ohio’s governor.
groy8 TIL that due to a restaurant offering free sushi to anyone with Chinese characters for salmon in their name, hundreds of Taiwanese changed their names in a situation that was dubbed "salmon chaos". Some are now stuck with names like Salmon Dream or Dancing Salmon.
R7o49 TIL though Madagascar now produces 80% of the world’s vanilla, the vine is native to Mexico. The Maya were the first to cultivate it in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsular. They flavoured their chocolate drink with the spice.
D1yJY TIL that Eugene Levy missed the moon landing because he got a job as a cameraman on a soft core porno film.