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TIL that steve jobs' biological father is Syrian and he was adopted as a kid.

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xZvD TIL at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, North Korean and South Korean athletes came together to march as one under the unified banner of ‘Korea’ during the opening ceremony
BPby TIL that in 1902 a volcanic eruption flattened an entire city, killing everyone but two people. One was a prisoner who only survived because he’d stabbed a policeman and had been put into solitary confinement. He was horribly burned, was pardoned of his crimes and became a circus attraction.
epEQD TIL that any shape made entirely of straight lines can be made from a folded piece of paper and a single straight cut. (Fold and cut theorem) (VSauce short)
4XlpX TIL of the condition Hikikomori which is seen among the youth of Japan and is also seen in UK, US, etc. Hikikomoris are reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from society and seek extreme degrees of isolation and confinement. It is estimated that there are about a million hikikomoris in Japan
KVjG TIL that In 1776, only 17% of the US population was religiously involved in America and by 2000, the amount of people who were religiously involved had increased gradually to 62%