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TIL “Go eat toffee” is a common insult in South Korea, because Korean toffees are shaped like dicks

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4XX16 TIL that the number 1 billion in most countries in continental Europe equates to 1 million millions instead of 1 thousand millions like it does in many English and Arabic speaking countries, Brazil, and the former Soviet Union countries.
9MrM TIL that four of the last seven governors of Illinois have served time in federal prison for corruption.
xVJ6B TIL that the last patient with ebola in the DRC has been discharged, thus ending the ebola outbreak in the DRC.
LQ77m TIL that after Steve Carell left “The Office,” James Gandolfini of the “Sopranos” was reportedly offered the role and turned it down.
gMVJ9 TIL Genital Herpes (HSV2) dates back millions of years. Scientists found that early ancestors (Homo Erectus) most likely contracted it from another early hominin (Parathropus Boisei). Probably likely through scavenging ancestral chimp meat.