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5Yy1r TIL that a majority of confederate monuments were erected decades after the South lost the Civil War
6E0DY TIL that "Billion" is the European name for "Trillion" in the US (10^12) and "Trillion" is the European name for "Quintillion" in the US (10^18).
GY0Xg TIL that citizenship was granted to pollinators (bees, bats, hummingbirds, butterflies) in a suburb of Costa Rica's capital
AGGB TIL during World War II American factory workers produced more than twice their German counterparts and had four times the output of Japanese workers prompting industrialist Donald Douglas to observe, “Here’s proof that free men can out-produce slaves.”
ovE TIL: There are female condoms, for potential rape victims, soon to hit American shelves that have a row of razor sharp barbs and can only be removed by a doctor.