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TIL The number 9 prefix added to a Price Look Up barcode on fruits signifies that an item is organic

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aGaL TIL that telling other people about your goals gives the illusion you’re closer to achieving them, making you less likely to complete them
O7wR TIL that in the Japanese version of Fallout 3, there is no option to rig the Megaton bomb to explode due to the still sensitive memory of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
OoXbR TIL that half of all sailors on a given trip were expected to die of scurvy during the 1600s.
JYyPB TIL: More than half a million people in central China are believed to have become infected with HIV from selling their blood to local government-run blood banks in the mid and late 1990s.
LkMOr TIL Phyllis from "The Office" would pay bills and do Christmas shopping online from the office computers in the background.