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TIL In Japan 11/11 is celebrated as Pocky Day, a celebration of a popular candy

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4Ywg TIL a 6-yo girl victim of the infamous radioactive accident that occurred in Brazil, 1987, was left alone in an isolated hospital room and received no treatment whatsoever until her death
4opw TIL that the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, was an atheist.
J47V TIL that Comcast sent bills and eventually collection notices to customers that lost their cable, phone, and internet equipment due to Hurricane Ike. The largest reported charge was $1000, but that bill was reduced to $931 to make up for the interruption of her phone service during the storm.
6AZm TIL a British bioengineering company has genetically modified genes in male mosquitoes to pass a ‘suicide gene’ on to its offspring in an effort to reduce Dengue Fever.
8aVnL TIL light doesn't always travel at the speed of light and has been recorded as slow as 38 m.p.h. (17 meters per second)