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TIL that in Ghana it is desirable to be buried in a novelty coffin, with favourites including a huge Coke bottle, an oversized Nokia and a giant catfish.

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m1LVR TIL that an $80 Windows program sold in 1995 claimed to double your system’s RAM. Researchers found that it just changed a system setting users could change for free, and reported false system information to the user. After an FTC settlement, buyers got a $10 refund.
BWYx TIL if a patient photo is added to the patient file the quality of radiological examinations is significant improved: Reports were longer, more recommendations made, summaries usually included and more incidental findings recorded.
nWoMP TIL the difference between dinner and supper. Dinner was the largest meal of the day - historically, lunch was called dinner. However, dinner slowly migrated later in the day until it overlapped with supper.
waP8 TIL that there is a plant called Acacia phlebophylla which only grows in one place in the world, Mount Buffalo in Australia. It also happens to be one of the purest natural sources of the psychadelic drug DMT.
v16kL TIL that plain grey shirt Mark Zuckerburg wears all the time costs between $300 and $400