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TIL the Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB) issued a consumer safety alert in 2006 warning that "asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners" was among South Korea's five most common summer accidents or injuries

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YpZP TIL that America’s Debt Is Greater than Entire Eurozone’s (and U.K.’s) Combined Debt
M5jA TIL White People in the US purchase more than twice the cheese per capita than Black or Asian people.
kOQ5e TIL the “mystery flavor” in Dum-Dums is actually a combination of 2 flavors to speed up production
awKa9 TIL The fencing masters, Bonetti, Agrippa, Capoferro, and Thibault, from the iconic Princess Bride dual on the cliffs of insanity were real people.
VMWG8 TIL: An Indiana Man Woke Up to Becoming a Millionaire By Accident. “It kind of sucks. You go from being a millionaire one second then back to being broke again. But hey, once you’re poor you don’t have anywhere else to go but up.”