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TIL Japan has two completely separate and incompatible power grids

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j96Q TIL in 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people while police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12 people and police in Germany didn’t kill anyone at all
AxLa TIL Canada changed liquor laws to start sales at 5 a.m for the Olympic gold medal hockey game.
wgko TIL that as of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is more than half of his current net worth of $61 billion.
ADBZx TIL A WW2 German captain had the proposed name of his vessel rejected so he called it Götz von Berlichengen because GvB was quoted in Goethe as saying "Kiss my arse". The rejected name; Michael.
7M7 TIL that the green bay packers have sold out every game since 1960 and there are 86000 people on the waiting list