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TIL Receipts in Taiwan are lottery tickets. It encourages locals to ask for receipts and boost tax income.

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6byl TIL in the 1600s, slavers from what is now Algeria and Morocco raided a village in Ireland, selling dozens into a life of slavery in Africa. The raid has been immortalized in the names of pubs like the Algiers Inn.
e0Yb TIL that Vitamin E doesn’t help heal scars quicker. It actually causes dermatitis up to 33% of the time.
w1E8 TIL that mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers.
KOJ8J Mushrooms might save the world
dbWB TIL for April Fools Day in 1998, Burger King took out a full-page ad in USA Today introducing a Whopper designed especially for lefties. The new burger would contain the same ingredients as the original, but rotated 180°. Thousands of customers swarmed BK restaurants requesting the “lefty” Whopper.