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TIL Chromecast’s model number is “H2G2-42”, a reference to the answer to life, the universe, and everything, from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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awLpJ TIL English Muffins are designed to be split with a fork, not a knife
Y7ykP TIL that 20 of the 50 oldest living people are Japanese
b6XNN TIL crows in South Korea memorize when and where people will feed them as part of a shamanistic tradition called keurigi. It is theorized they use their facial recognition abilities to know who will feed them and the crows make annual migrations to the shrines where these ceremonies take place
b6J5p TIL gunshot wounds to the genitalia account for up to 5% of all military traumas
9wMj7 TIL The Dominican Republic launched a genocide of Haitians living on the two country's frontiers. They identified Haitians from their own populace by making suspects pronounce "parsley," or "perejil" in Spanish. If they could not do this, they were deemed Haitian and murdered.