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TIL there are 15 different types of electrical outlets around the world and some are exclusive to a single country.

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R95a TIL That famous philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau so enjoyed S&M, he used to drop his trousers in the street and charge ass-first towards groups of women in the hopes of being spanked.
pBb TIL eggs do not need to be refrigerated unless they come from US or Canadian stores
X0rM6 TIL that The closest living relative of hippopotamuses are whales
NXxwE TIL that William Peter Blatty, the author of "The Exorcist", spend over a year successfully posing as a Saudi Arabian prince while living in Los Angeles in the 1960s. He kept up the charade while appearing as a contestant on Groucho Marx's game show "You Bet Your Life".
ev4J TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, during the detonation of the trinty bomb (the first atom bomb), recalled that besides initial laughs and cries, most scientists were silent. Oppenheimer later recalled thinking of a line from Hindu scripture that read, “Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds”