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TIL that Cobalt was named after Kobolds, the goblin like creatures said to inhabit mines.

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j9NQ TIL that in China and many other east asian countries,when you are born, you are considered one year old and everyone’s age increases one year on New Year’s. Age is incremented on the beginning of a solar term instead of a birth date.
Ovb7 TIL The Shanghai government will lower your credit score if you don’t visit your parents. Parents can also sue their kids for neglect.
9YxbQ TIL: Project Gutenberg, the world's largest digital library of over 57,000 free public domain ebooks. Contains wide variety of the most historically important literary works.
Wk7LN TIL of Zabol, Iran, whose air quality is 12x more polluted than the worst town in the US, mostly due to an annual 4-month long dust storm
M7XKK TIL Legendary baseball player Ted Williams was future Astronaut John Glenn's Wingman during the Korean War