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TIL South Korea once had a website mapping the number of women of childbearing age (15-49) by city and district.

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J1Rkl TIL: In 1990 a courier was robbed on a street in London, England. The robber made off with bearer bonds to the value of £292 million. Today, this is equivalent to £758 million - or $1.086 billion USD. This is still the highest amount ever stolen in a street robbery.
rkg0 TIL Australian Don Ritchie prevented at least 160 suicides near his home which overlooked a cliff
VMB68 TIL of liquid ass. A spray invented and sold for practical jokes. It’s smell is so disgusting, it’s used to train combat medics and to prepare them for the horrible smells of disemboweled troops.
Zppa4 TIL Zeno of Citium, the founder of stoicism, wrote his own version of The Republic in response to Plato's. The work has not survived, but it depicted a stoic utopia based on the principles of asceticism.
YYAW TIL President Ronald Reagan majored in Economics, where he graduated with a ‘C’ grade.