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TIL ~1 in 5 British children are conceived on Ikea mattresses

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D18Le TIL It is safe to eat RAW eggs in Japan due to a specially designed machine in order to test the eggs for bacteria.
p89we TIL that despite the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was even worse. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334, low-flying B-29 bombers.
p8aYG TIL Murder rates in Miami, Florida were so high during the 1970s and 1980s that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office had to rent a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses
bVb9 TIL that the film Saving Private Ryan (1998) was so realistic that not only did veterans leave theaters during the opening scene, but visits to PTSD counselors rose and the Dept of Veteran Affairs set up a nationwide hotline for veterans affected by this film.
n5MP TIL that the creator of the Nintendo Game Boy was originally hired by Nintendo as a maintenance man.