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TIL that, using Wolfram Alpha, you can see your Facebook’s Account stats like most used words, top commenters, etc.

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W76RB TIL about the small town of Swastika, Ontario. During WW2, the provincial government tried to change the town's name. The town's residents rejected this, stating "To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first".
XEXlk TIL that some people can see into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum when they have their lens removed from cataracts (called aphakia), and that UV color is described as a pale whitish-blue. This is why Claude Monet, who became aphakic, began painting w/ more blue post-surgery! Weird!!
Vn84 TIL that a WWII battlefield went completely untouched and undiscovered until 2010
neAJG TIL a large amount of Japanese companies are owned by 'Keiretsu', mega conglomerates of companies historically run by families. One of these Keiretsu, Sumitomo Group, owns Mazda, NEC Corporation, and Nippon Steel, and traces its history back to a Copper Refining business started 1615.
OGjY TIL the first two people ever mauled to death by grizzly bears in a national park were two 19-year-old girls killed on the same night – by different bears – 9 miles apart