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TIL the official short name of the Czech Republic is ‘Czechia’. The use of the short form "Czechia" has increased in web searches from less than 1% in 2015 to more than 16% in 2023.

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1jxO TIL Soda is so corrosive, that without BPA or equivalent liner, an aluminum can would break after three days
XEr4R TIL that from 1953 to 1964, the CIA conducted completely uncontrolled tests involving drugging people who didn't know they were being drugged, then following and watching them without intervening.
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ZEoD TIL Instead of sending labor over to China or Bangladesh, manufacturers have chosen to forcibly employ up to 2.4 million incarcerated people in the United States. Chances are high that if a product you’re holding says it is ‘American Made,’ it was made in an American prison.