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TIL Logitech is called Logicool in Japan.

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X00nR TIL Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke believes that Earth was created 6,000 years ago despite picking up the oldest moon rock known to man dated 4.46 billion years old.
p89Y8 TIL that between 1999 and 2008, 834 people died in Laos from American bombs left unexploded after the Vietnam War.
MlbA TIL that after Genghis Khan defeated rival tribes he would place the conquered tribe under his protection, integrate its members into his own tribe, and even have his mother adopt orphans from the conquered tribe, bringing them into his family.
LklZp TIL that in 1958 the Soviets reached one of the most remote places in Antarctica where they built a cabin. When they left they placed a bust of Lenin on top of the chimney facing in the direction of Moscow, which today is now the only thing standing above the snow
m8wO TIL before the 1980s, it was unlawful to own your own telephone.