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TIL Japan sells more adult diapers than baby diapers.

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LkYRr TIL scientists applied Einstein's Theory of Relativity to Luke and Leia's journeys to Cloud City in Empire Strikes Back and calculated that Leia would be nearly two years older than Luke
QLEM TIL: The correct way to bribe people, and how the bribery system works in 3rd world countries (courtesy of John McAfee)
oyDL TIL Thylacine (aka Tasmanian Tigers), which were hunted to extinction because people believed to them to prey on farmers’ sheep and poultry, had jaws so weak that they couldn’t kill anything larger than a possum.
ZpkMY TIL British Delegates Negotiating the Treaty of Paris, Recognizing American Independence, Felt so Ashamed for Having to Accede to Colonials That They Refused to Pose for the Portrait Marking the Occasion, by Famed Painter Benjamin West, Leaving it Unfinished
P1ZLZ TIL in the US there is a 1 in 93 chance you will die in a motor vehicle crash in your lifetime