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TIL countries such as Brazil, Chile, China, Japan and South Korea use different types of tally marks to ours (US, UK, Australia, etc).

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5wnk TIL of Pedro Lopez, serial killer convicted of murdering 110 girls and later released from prison in 1998 after 16 years in prison
YpNLP TIL British Parliament had an official discussion where they condemned the historical inaccuracies of the film U-571 and the rewriting of history to paint the Americans as heroes in an event they never even took part in. They felt it was unfair on the British sailors that lost their lives.
nWoPB TIL that Mad Max (1979), originally filmed with Australian accent, was dubbed for the American audience
Me46a TIL that Harry Connick Jr’s father, Henry Connick, unseated New Orleans DA Jim Garrison. Garrison famously was the only DA to bring anyone to trial for JFK’s assassination and was the focus of Oliver Stone’s film JFK.
KYDgR TIL A hiker was lost on a mountain for 24 hours and ignored calls, texts, and voicemail messages from rescuer teams because he didn’t recognize the phone number.