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TIL 11% of americans could not identify the united states on a map in a 2002 survey.

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P14gO TIL In the UK you can register your mobile phone to use the emergency services number, 999, by SMS message. As a deafy, this could -literally- be a life saver.
xVQbB TIL, a Pakistani student was killed by mob at his university, for doing blasphemy on social media. In Pakistan, something as silly as "Nine is not fine" can get you killed, and your killers will be praised as heroes.
M6KW TIL Alfred Hitchcock wrote a story for Look magazine in 1943 called “The Murder of Monty Woolley”. It was a sequence of captioned photographs inviting the reader to inspect the photos for clues to the murderer’s identity.
nrVG TIL the Quran says do not blow yourselves up.
JAl1 TIL that the sun does not rotate as a solid body but that the equator rotates faster than the poles