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TIL Chicago’s first permanent non-indigenous resident was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

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lokw5 TIL that a large number of PlayStations are being assembled and packaged in an almost fully automated factory in Japan rather than by cheap labor in China. One PlayStation can be assembled every thirty seconds in a factory with only four people.
09nN TIL that every year around a dozen Japanese tourists have psychiatric breakdowns caused by French rudeness
Vdjp TIL that, despite having 70+ million viewers, Reddit is actually not profitable and in the RED. Massive server costs and lack of advertising are the main issues.
KYdx9 TIL though the Egyptians themselves considered the Romans to be their pharaohs and the legitimate successors of the ancient pharaohs, the emperors themselves never adopted any pharaonic titles or traditions outside of Egypt, as these would have been hard to justify in the Roman world at large.
AWj7 TIL there are 12 Indiana Jones novels, one of which has him find the philosopher’s stone and meet Nicolas Flamel. (published 2 years before Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)