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TIL there is a Kenyan fintech app called Okash that threatens to notify everyone on the users contact list if they fall behind on their repayments.

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X0ZpP TIL Vanessa Carlton’s song A Thousand Miles is most likely about Glenn Howerton.
9YWNM TIL that Backgammon has been around for over Five Thousand years, and only one other board game is older but the rules for it have been forgotten.
epkVD TIL The world's biggest kitchen is often considered to be the kitchen at the Sri Sai Sansthan Prasadalaya in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India which uses state of the art technology to prepare free meals for over 40,000 people on a typical day and sometimes more than 70,000 for special festivals.
WB6X TIL after the Sandy Hook shootings, people donated more than 65,000 teddy bears, 9 tractor trailers of paper snowflakes, and half a million letters to a town of only 27,000 people. Since then the bears have been re-donated across the globe to places including Haiti, and Afghanistan.
wGE8 TIL that Richard Burbage (who played Shakespeare’s Richard III) was invited to have sex with one of his admirers. When he arrived, Shakespeare was already there and told Burbage “William the Conqueror came before Richard III”.