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TIL it took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube more than a month to solve it for the first time after he initially invented it.

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R7o1w TIL how you can tell if two screenwriters wrote the screenplay together or rather rewrote each others. If it says "x&y" it means they wrote it together. However if it's "x and y" it means that they rewrote each others material.
b607N TIL almost half of selfie-related deaths worldwide since October 2011 have taken place in India
nev79 TIL when Nintendo had a fall in revenue from the less successful Wii U its CEO cut his pay in half for 5 months rather than blame workers.
0dOER TIL about the Putmayo Genocide. The Peruvian Amazon Company, a rubber company founded in 1907, enslaved the native population of the Putmayo region and forced them to work under awful conditions and brutal punishments, causing terrible suffering and death.
kO4EB TIL that 2-dollar bills are actually still being made. The main reason they're so rare is not because they were discontinued, but because people think they're valuable and hoard them.