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TIL in the Hungarian language, whether written or spoken, names are invariably given in the "Eastern name order", with the family name followed by the given name.

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QJBWk TIL of the "Hinoe uma" which is a part of the Sexagenary Cycle in Japan. Occurring every 60 years, people born on this year tend to have a strong personality, which in 1966 led to a drop of 1/3 in births.
8avka TIL toasters cause nearly 800 deaths annually due to electrocution and fires.
Y7nYd TIL of the Duplessis Orphans, a scam run by the premier of Quebec in the 40s and 50s to wrongly confine thousands of children in psychiatric hospitals in order to gain payouts from the Canadian government.
kGRe TIL there is a wiki list of every single problem solved by MacGyver and how he did it.
gA7y TIL that jazz trumpeters grew goatees as it provided comfort when playing