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TIL Valentine’s Day in South Korea is a little different. Only women give gifts, not men. Women give men chocolates on Valentine's Day as a sign of love and affection.

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PlkE TIL: William “Bud” Post won $16.2 million in a lottery, and after his brother tried to kill him, his ex-wife sued him, and he was arrested multiple times, he ended up dying with $1 million in debt.
Z8ZQR TIL that Peter Cullen — voice actor for Optimus Prime, the Predator, and many other voices in film — came up with the Predator's clicking sound because he was coughing blood after voicing King Kong's roars and couldn't do a traditional monster sound.
9wOom TIL that the electricity bills of a Japanese bullet train on a 622km (386 mi) journey can be paid off with the ticket income of 16 paying-travelers on its 1,324 seats, or on average, just one passenger in each carriage.
6a5Y TIL that back in 1845, baseball was played until both teams had a combined score of 21.
ned8W TIL in 2002 three geriatric Catholic nuns broke into a US nuclear missile launch facility, vandalized it with hammers, and drew crosses on the silo with their own blood.