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TIL that in Sweden, Finland and Quebec a check mark (✓) means "wrong".

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19or TIL in 2014 two undercover cops working independently of each other tried to bust each other in a sting operation without realizing who the other was.
w6rE TIL in 1980 some dad cut his 8 year old’s penis off and flushed it down the toilet because he was late home. After a 90 minute search in the sewers, firemen recovered the penis and it was successfully attached back onto the boy in a 3h operation.
kOQg TIL AAA doesn’t care if you sign up for their membership on the side of the road… and that’s usually cheaper than calling a tow truck.
Jx7B TIL Tesla runs an entire island on solar power. The island of Ta'u in American Samoa used to consume 300 gallons of diesel fuel daily to run generators, fuel that had to be bought and shipped, but Tesla’s solar panels and power packs provide 6 megawatt-hours of energy storage
l7e77 TIL of Abraham Wald, who in WW2 proposed that the US Military focus on reinforcing sections of the returning planes showing the least concentration of bullet holes. Initially, the Military planned to reinforce sections containing the most bullet holes, disregarding the phenomenon of survival bias