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TIL 95% of the world’s ATMs are running on Windows XP
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TIL in 18th century London, you could earn admission into the zoo by offering a cat or dog to be fed to the Lions
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TIL there is a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment, named as the explorers found the view from it sub par and wanted to reflect that.
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TIL steel doesn't need to melt to lose it's strength. At 50% of the melting temperature it already loses 90% structural integrity.
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TIL large pepper grinders are named "Rubirosas" after Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican diplomat and playboy who had a reputedly humungous penis
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TIL that there's a five-year mandatory minimum sentence for possession of 500g of powdered cocaine, but only 28g of crack, despite being pharmacologically similar. Crack is used more by black Americans, while cocaine is used more by white ones.