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TIL If you come across a smartphone review video mere hours after its announcement, there's a 90% chance it's fake!

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YOZ TIL that there is a Muslim X-Men character who also dons the traditional clothing in the comics.
5YlYr TIL: The gravestones of John Parr (The first British soldier to die in WW1) and George Edwin Ellison (The last British soldier to die in WW1) both face each other in the same graveyard
gMrDA TIL that Mexico City has public transportation that is reserved for women and children under 12 to help them feel safe from getting groped on public transport.
bmkE TIL a French mountaineer found a 47-year-old treasure at Mont Blanc worth $341,300 and returned it because he “didn’t want to keep something that belonged to someone who’d died.”
p8YYO TIL many vessels have a figure of a bare-breasted woman on the bow of the ship because her nakedness would "shame" an angry sea into calm.