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TIL Dumb Ways to Die, the world’s most shared Public Service Announcement (PSA), hit the internet in November 2012. The public service announcement campaign was launched by Metro Trains Melbourne to promote rail safety.

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x6Nvk TIL that because all US banknotes are the same size, making telling them apart hard-to-impossible for the blind, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing provides an electronic device (the iBill Currency Identifier) that can identify the value of the bills free of charge.
oewW TIL That a Korean man during WWII was conscripted to fight for the Japanese, was caught by the Russians, forced to fight for the Russians, captured and forced to fight for the Germans, and finally captured by American troops at D-Day. He eventually moved and passed away in Illinois.
epjd5 TIL that authorities in the historic English town of Chester were so concerned about the erosion of the city’s Roman walls and monuments by public urination that they introduced a “walk of shame” for offenders, where they were taken on a tour to inspect the damage caused by public peeing.
WO7L TIL That 2 million people died during the battle of Stalingrad. Both the Axis and USSR lost more men in that battle than the US did the whole war
rNa70 TIL we are literally Drowning in plastic, every year 481 billion plastic bottles are sold, more than enough to bury the Burj Khalifa, well done to Reuters for such an impactful (and rather disturbing) visualisation!