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TIL How digital payments work, and god its complex.

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x6XpB TIL that football (soccer) pitches, even at the highest level of competition, are not standard in size
07Xp TIL in Caracas, Venezuela, as kids go to bed on xmas Eve, they tie a string to their big toe, leaving the other end outside their bedroom window. Streets are closed to cars until 8am for people to roller-skate to early mass, tugging on hanging string as they go by to wake the ones that are sleeping.
OXEg TIL The Mummy had a hazardous production. The cast and crew had a special drink to prevent dehydration, many crew members had to be airlifted out after snake and spider bites, the production took out kidnapping insurance on the cast and Brendan Fraser almost died filming the scene where he’s hanged.
4XGVw Til: The vast majority(79-91% depending on sources) of plastic has never been recycled, and plastic recycling is largely a marketing ploy to ease public perception of plastic producing companies
xgnk TIL that in “Titanic” Jack Dawson claims to have gone ice fishing in Wissota Lake which is a man-made lake and wasn’t formed until 5 years after the Titanic sunk