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TIL the "Necco" of Necco Wafers stands for "New England Confectionery Company"

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vjE4 TIL That there is a website called worldometers which updates various statistics such as births, deaths, economic expenditure and CO2 emissions (as well as much more) in real time.
m6bM TIL Wealthy Ancient Greeks sometimes sent their slaves to sit on the public toilets (made from slabs of marble) to warm it up “in anticipation of their arrival”
DPBP TIL On the DVD for Borat there is a Hebrew language track option, but this is merely a joke; choosing the Hebrew language option results in a warning screen reading “You have been trapped, Jew!
d5rE TIL The the power symbol found on every power switch is actually a 1 and 0. The English words On and Off were replaced by the universal numeral symbols 1 and 0 to bypass any possible language barriers as technology became more ubiquitous.
R70K4 TIL the USSR and China each lost about 20-25 million citizens during WW2. The rest of the world lost 25-30 million lives combined.