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TIL that Burmese names (people from Myanmar) have very little formal structure. Family names basically don't exist and the Burmese often change their names at will, without any government oversight.

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kOQe5 TIL as recently as 1990, single digit phone numbers existed in the UK
9YAZM TIL about serial killer Robert Hansen who would kidnap women, then release them in the woods in Alaska and hunt them with a rifle and knife
EgpAp TIL Microsoft reportedly paid $8–14 million to use The Rolling Stones’ "Start Me Up" in Windows 95 ads which was a perfect match for the brand new Start button.
J4ov TIL that someone stole $1.5 million worth of casino chips but never got to trade them in for the money because the chips were immediately nullified by the casino, so he just had a bunch of useless disks and soon got jailed for 3-11 years.
p8PKN TIL two right-wing political advisors, Lyn Nofziger and Frank Mankiewicz, convinced President Reagan to halt metrication in the US by dissolving the US Metric Board, effectively killing the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.