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TIL In 2012, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters saved $90,000 simply by not giving out “I Voted” stickers on election day

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j6B5M TIL that Genghis Khan slaughtered so many people that it lowered the carbon dioxide level
pY6ZO TIL the first video on youtube "me at the zoo" was actually a d*ck joke and it went over my head as a youth
pygG TIL In 2008, melamine added to milk in China caused kidney stones in thousands of Chinese children. To show his confidence in Chinese dairy products, Peter Mandelson MP drank a glass of Chinese yoghurt in front of reporters. The following week, he was hospitalised for a kidney stone.
d8oZK TIL An A.I. developed for a Japanese bakery check out system was successfully adapted to detect cancer cells
4WOX TIL that sharks are older than trees. “Modern” trees lived around 350 million years ago while sharks have existed for 400 million years