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TIL nearly 42% of Americans said they didn’t take a single vacation day during 2014

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mxjwE TIL that after Mao Zhedong promised China's steel production would one day surpass England's and America's, many children born in 1958 and 1959 were named 'Chaoying' ('Surpass England') or 'Chaomei' ('Overtake America').
YjEP TIL that despite being built as a general service platform to reduce overhead costs, the three F-35 designs have drifted so far apart that it would have been cheaper to initially design three separate aircrafts.
1rxO TIL in the 2005 film ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ the chocolate river was made of actual chocolate instead of CGI. It was made of about 192,000 gallons of chocolate.
LNJv TIL that a serial killer from the ‘70’s, in the midst of his spree got on to “The Dating Game” and won, dispite the fact he was already a registered sex offender. The bachelorette refused to go on a date with him, she found him “Creepy.”
xVmww TIL that graphene, while only being an atom thick, is 200 times stronger than steel.