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TIL that age 31 is typically the most expensive year of your life according to a survey by ClearScore.

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OGDbL TIL Rob Baur, a fan of The Simpsons, successfully grafted a "tomacco" plant in 2003
D1dng TIL that former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak (Served 2008-2013) is currently serving a 15-year term in prison, and has been forced to pay $11.5m in fines. He was convicted on charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuses of power, namely taking a bribe to pardon the chairman of Samsung.
Wkm4X TIL In Japanese tradition, rabbits live on the Moon where they make mochi, the popular snack of mashed sticky rice. This comes from interpreting the pattern of dark patches on the moon as a rabbit standing on tiptoes on the left pounding on an usu, a Japanese mortar.
R7GOQ TIL that 100's of years ago scribes drew colorful ¶ ("pilcrows") to mark new paragraphs. They'd leave blank spaces for the ¶'s then switch inks and add them. They would often miss some so readers evolved to interpret a blank space (indent) as the start of a new paragraph. Voila.
neKxW TIL a German POW called Georg Gärtner successfully escaped and lived in the US for 40 years before revealing his identity after his wife, who had no idea about his history, became increasingly frustrated over his refusal to talk about his past and threatened divorce. He became a US Citizen in 2009.