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TIL adult diapers outsell baby diapers in Japan.

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8pLL TIL Goodwill is a multibillion dollar company, but pays some of it’s disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour due to a legal loophole.
OoV74 TIL it's unknown where the tomb of Archimedes is located today. The last known record of his tomb was in 75 BC, 137 years after Archimedes had died, when Cicero had found the tomb in a neglected condition and overgrown with bushes, and had the tomb cleaned up.
Zplop TIL in the video game "1943: The Battle of Midway" the player controls an American plane against the Imperial Japanese Navy with the Battleship Yamato as final boss. Japanese designer Yoshiki Okamoto claimed he was too young when he produced the game to understand the historical irony.
KYYna TIL that the only guests that attended the funeral of Spanish serial killer José Antonio Rodríguez Vega (who was killed after being stabbed 113 times by fellow inmates) were the gravediggers hired to bury him
7MWx TIL Unauthorized Immigrants Paid $100 Billion Into Social Security Over Last Decade