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TIL adult diapers outsell baby diapers in Japan.

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GAVAQ TIL the “One of us, Gooble Gobble” chant (popularized by South Park and Wolf of Wall Street) comes from the 1934 movie Freaks, a film about “sideshow freaks.”
ANkMn TIL that in 2005 Paul Janssen the developer of fentanyl was voted the second greatest Belgian of all time. (Father Damien the leper priest was first)
EA5X TIL Photoshop won’t allow you to edit pictures of currency.
E1PAV TIL of “Tokyo Rose” aka “Orphan Ann” aka Iva Toguri D'Aquino who in WWII used double entendres to make a farce of Japanese propaganda on her radio show “The Zero Hour” and used part of her $7 a month paycheck to smuggle food to POWs
neDM7 TIL that the amount of physical US currency in circulation has doubled between 2010 and the beginning of 2020