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TIL christian rip-off products are a huge market in the US, selling $4.6Billion worth of merchandise

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0mp5 TIL that Apple Makes New Employees Work on Fake Products Until Apple Can Trust Them
G9oG TIL there’s an episode of Arthur that teaches censorship on television. For the entirety of the episode the children learn and use curse words toward one another!
l7pL7 TIL that during the siege of Leningrad during World War II, 28 scientists chose to die of hunger while protecting the seed vault at the Vavilov Institute rather than eating the seeds
yVVj8 TIL the iconic Einstein-sticking-his-tongue-out photo was his annoyed reaction to paparazzi goading him to smile on his 72nd birthday. It achieved cult status mostly because Einstein himself asked for a cropped version, ordered many prints and proceeded to send them to friends.