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TIL more countries use the comma separator (17,6) than the point separator (17.6)

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Z88B TIL Public school teachers are almost twice as likely to send their kids to private schools, and the number of teachers choosing private schools is upwards of 40% in some urban areas (Philadelphia, Cincinnati)
wolJM TIL that a plane carrying 6,000 pounds of pot crashed in Yosemite National Park. Climbers in Yosemite Valley heard news of the crash and sparked a miniature gold rush with up to 20 people searching the frozen crash site. Much of the weed was salvaged, smoked, or sold before park rangers caught on.
D1dWg TIL that fentanyl lollipops are used in the US military to treat combat casualties. They are taped to the victim's finger so that, once sedated, they let the lollipop fall from their mouth to reduce the chance of overdoses.
dD9gK TIL pizza rolls were created in the 1960s by a cook working for a Chinese food company searching for new uses for their egg roll machine. She tested several sandwich fillings, but pizza flavors tested best, causing her to say, "Pizza rolls are nothing but egg rolls with pizza crust and filling."
woDMo TIL that the Basilica, a cannon used to besiege Constantinople, was so powerful that its recoil killed its own operators