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TIL most American households don't have an electric kettle.

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k6AB TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows Vista, because the original code was written by an outside company and Microsoft couldn’t find the collision detector in the code!
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0jvj TIL there is a Marvel Comics character that is a werewolf centaur fused with an alien symbiote. His name is Marcus and his weakness is literally diabetes.
Z1OG TIL The Songhai Empire collapsed following a battle when their army released 1000 cattle to charge the invading Moroccans but the cattle turned around and stampeded the Songhai because the Moroccans fired their guns and cannons.
bjJQ TIL that Kurt Lee, the first Chinese-American US Marine Corps officer, yelled out orders in Mandarin Chinese to confuse opposing Chinese troops during the Battle of Inchon in the Korean War.