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TIL adult diapers outsell baby diapers in Japan.

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yKmv TIL that Tesla invented a light bulb called the “Carbon button lamp” that is 10 times more efficient than a standard Edison incandescent bulb.
WXXL TIL IBM made a movie by moving atoms and recording them with an electron microscope.
VMKnB TIL about Henry Rathbone, the military officer who was sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated. He was wracked with guilt over his perceived failure to stop the assassination and slowly went insane. He later murdered his wife in a fit of madness and spent the rest of his days in an asylum
P1O6n TIL of Reintegrationism, a cultural movement in Galicia, Spain that advocates for Galician and Portuguese to be considered a single language, Galician-Portuguese.
OjXe TIL in 1999, Daylight Savings Time thwarted a terrorist bombing in Israel. The West Bank had changed clocks while Israel hadn’t. The terrorists had set timers on bombs which detonated an hour early, killing three terrorists.