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TIL that more than 90% of all zippers in the world are made by the japanese based company YKK

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m1VGY TIL a message in a bottle thrown off the Titanic the day before she sank was discovered washed up on a Canadian beach in 2021, after drifting for nearly 100 years.
vPwEj TIL that in 2018, during a local election for mayor in Makassar, Indonesia, a man ran unopposed and received more than 260,000 votes. He lost to a blank ballot, which received over 300,000 votes.
b194 TIL There was a phone booth in the middle of the Mojave Desert that people from all over the world would call. Today, you can still call the number and talk to people (760) 733-9969
M7jV0 TIL that just 53 days after being sworn in, the signing of the Enabling Act of 1933 by the Nazi Party cleared the way for Hitler and the Nazis to seize power, ending the Weimar Republik, a Constitutional Republic.
oBGxK TIL that Jeremy Rossman dropped out of MIT in 2011 to start his own college, Make School. The young college offers a project based bachelors degree in computer science that involves working with companies on current, real world problems. Students only pay tuition if they are hired upon graduation.