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TIL Compulsive gambling affects about 5 million U.S. residents.

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X0oeP TIL Japan has used history textbook that contained references to the Nanjing Massacre, anti-Japanese resistance movements in Korea, forced suicide in Okinawa, comfort women, and Unit 731 since the mid 1990s.
Oad1 TIL salt was so important throughout human history that the word ‘salary’ derives from the Latin word salārium, referring to money given to soldiers so they could buy salt.
ne5xY TIL last spring around 500 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube each and every minute which works out to about 82 years worth per day
XEPPQ TIL Fissidens adianthoides, the maidenhair pocketmoss, was so named by Anglo-Saxons because of its resemblance to pubic hair.
JkJB TIL There were ancient stone tablets in Japan’s recent tsunami struck areas with inscriptions “Do not build your homes below this point!”