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TIL there’s an alarm clock that donates your money to charities/political parties that you disapprove of every time you hit the snooze button.

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rPnw TIL That it is a taboo to wear green hats in China because it signals you as a cuckold
WkpZN TIL about Richard L. McKinley, who died in a nuclear plant accident. His body ended so contaminated that had to be buried in a lead-lined casket which was then sealed in concrete and placed in a metal vault and cannot be moved from its location without the approval of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Oopbe TIL that the USS Arizona and USS Utah, two ships which were both destroyed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, still continue to leak oil over 80 years later
pr68 TIL: A single human male produces enough sperm in two weeks to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet.
lo78G TIL China's past presidents all failed to fully master the official language of Putonghua, which literally means "common speak." China's original reformist leader, Deng Xiaoping, spoke with a thick Sichuanese dialect that some found difficult to follow