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TIL that the only countries in the world to use the Month-Day-Year format is the USA and Belize.

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BY0K TIL of Annie Dookhan, a chemist in a drug testing lab who tampered with 40,000+ samples resulting in thousands of innocent people being put in prison
0w4xN TIL in Eastern European folklore, many vampires suffered from OCD, specifically having strong compulsions to count. Bags of rice or seed were often placed at graves to occupy them at night by couting the grains. This is where the inspiration for Count Von Count from Sesame Street came from.
lxWB TIL that the phrase “under God” wasn’t part of the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954, and that its adoption was largely due to pressure from the Knights of Colombus
ANpJw TIL that in 2011, Steve Whittaker, Researcher at IBM and Professor of Human Computer Interaction at UCSC, showed that Sorting Email into Folders is Mathematically Inferior to Searching and Scrolling.
kQe4 TIL Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino was heavily damaged by a bomb in an extortion attempt in 1980. The bomb was designed and built by a millionaire businessman is the most complex improvised explosive device ever created, according to the FBI.