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TIL mobile game developers, because the FTC's Truth in Advertising has not caught up with this practice, are allowed to grossly falsify gameplay with advertising in order to get you to download as long as they don't charge you up front to play or download the game.

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V4bZ TIL after watching Saddam Hussein’s execution, a 10-year-old from Texas hanged himself. At least six other suicides took place around the world at that time, and are considered “copycat” hangings.
GALQ4 TIL the internationally recognised start of Earth's second-most recent geological age (the Pleistocene, aka the "Ice Age") is officially defined as the time when a specific species of algae became extinct
YpVaZ TIL that many Icelanders refer to WW2 as "the blessed war" because the country has the war to thank for their independence.
B5wW TIL that in an 8-hour day, a survey found that the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.
Bg7me TIL in 2011, the Kellogg's brand decided to add Vitamin D to all of its cereals in the UK due to the fact that 1 in 5 people in the UK were deficient in Vitamin D. A study in 2021 showed that 1 in 6 adults in the UK have low levels of vitamin D in their blood