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TIL Germany is the only country in which the McRib is available all year round

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yQJae TIL in 2010, Philadelphia school authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school issued laptops the students were using at home in order to spy on the students. They even disciplined a student for his "improper" behavior at home.
8aPL8 TIL the ginkgo tree, an incredibly popular tree planted in cities worldwide, is the last remaining member of its phyla and would be extinct today if not cultivated by Buddhist monks for centuries
pY5GN TIL The average IQ difference between a parent and child is the same as the difference between siblings, about 12 IQ points. A parent with a high IQ will usually, but not always, have children whose IQs are somewhat lower than theirs but are still above the average for the general population
VMno8 TIL that Steve Jobs was a huge asshole who parked his mercedes in handicap parking spots and got away with it by simply purchasing a new one every 6 months. (exploiting California car license laws by being rich)
Ypr5A TIL that Twenty or more US Airmen were in Hiroshima as POWs when the Atom Bomb fell. SSG Ralph J. Neal and another Airman, Norman Brissette, survived the initial blast by jumping into a cesspool, only to die thirteen days later from radiation poisoning.