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TIL the median age of people who watch cable news is more than 60 years old.

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xX81 TIL That after a rash of unexplained pay phone thefts, Malaysian authorities discovered fisherman were using them as bait.
WkG48 TIL In Afghanistan they make beautiful carpets that depict the decades of wars and violence the country has gone through. Instead of traditional motives, these rugs show drones, tanks and guns and began after the Soviet invasion in the 1980s, continuing after the NATO-invasion in the 2000s.
xVdQo TIL laws restricting Chinese people to merchant visas made many Chinese restaurants in the U.S. These visas were only for fancy shops and the person had to run it for a year. Some groups used all their cash to open a nice restaurant and then switch who ran it each year so that they'd all get visas.
VBK5G TIL that as of 2019 it's more expensive to mint $1 coins than to keep $1 bills in circulation, because bills are getting used less and less and thus are lasting longer.
E10Dw TIL Bill Hader wrote the Fish Sticks joke for South Park