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TIL there are regions for DVDs, and if your dvd player doesn’t match the disk’s region, it won’t play.

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mxZ7Y TIL that Barrow, Alaska - the northernmost town in the U.S. - changed its name to Utqiaġvik, its traditional Iñupiaq name.
QRnd TIL that there was a congressional inquiry concerning the implied sexual relationship between Batman & Robin.
XE4NX TIL there is a freshwater parasite called Naegleria fowleri that can enter your brain through your nasal cavity while swimming in freshwater lakes/poorly sanitized pools. The parasite destroys human brain tissue and is over 97% fatal within days.
R7LQ8 TIL Safer Internet Day is an Internet risk awareness day held every second day of the second week of February in the European Union. It conducts awareness campaigns focusing on issues related to cyberbullying, child pornography & pedophilia online, sexting, loss of privacy, sedentary lifestyle, etc.
GAQR4 TIL: In 1863, a professor named William Henry Perkin was trying to formulate a cure for Malaria but instead he inadvertently created the first commercialized synthetic dye.