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TIL the Swiss Army Knives are red so they can more easily be found when dropped in snow

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ywMV TIL- 62% of Americans have less than 1000 dollars in their savings account.
ANAa4 TIL about the Hoff crab. Named after David Hasslehoff, they eat microbes they farm in their chest hair.
69ypW TIL that former managing director of the Guinness Breweries, Hugh Beaver, created the concept of the Guinness Book of Records, after being involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe
EwBp TIL that Colombians are obsessed with plastic surgery. The Latin American country did 375,000 cosmetic procedures in 2015 for both natives and foreigners, #2 per capita to South Korea. Thousands of Colombian teenage girls save money for years to have their first surgery at the legal age of 18.
b67GE TIL the stopwatch on 60 Minutes was real and is now on display at the Smithsonian. "This watch was used on the program until the late 1990s, when it was replaced by a computer graphic."