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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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8vbK TIL that allied forces burned far more books than the Nazis to denazify Germany and other occupied states.
vP8VK TIL, On July 26, 1978, the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in Oldham, England
ZZRv TIL the numbers 1-9 were designed so that when you counted the number of angles in the number, you would know the value.
V6V4 TIL that mathematician, George Price, proved the kindness doesn’t exist. However, he hated his equation so much he set out to prove it wrong by converting to Christianity, giving away all his belongings, and letting homeless sleep in his house. He failed and slashed his throat with scissors in 1975.
9e8m TIL Helen Keller was a radical socialist. After she expressed her socialist beliefs, news columnists who had once praised her then dismissed her stances based on her disabilities.