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TIL over 10% of PIN numbers are ‘1234’.

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0wQvM TIL that the superstitious tradition of knocking on wood for good luck is believed to have been conceived by ancient Indo-European people who believed that spirits (both good and bad) lived within the trees. By knocking on a tree one was asking for a blessing from the spirit which lived within.
KOBNR TIL that Robert Morris, namesake of Robert Morris University, engaged in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and personally owned several slaves.
47db TIL In 1676, Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV demanded a surrender of Zaporozhian Cossacks. Their reply is considered one of the rudest diplomatic correspondences in history, which included niceties such as “Fck your mother” and “Goat fcker”
ZreG TIL many Silicon Valley millionaires fear an impending societal breakdown, and have started buying houses in New Zealand to prepare for the apocalypse
ErZw TIL that Pabst Blue Ribbon’s marketing guy deliberately tricked a generation of hipsters into making PBR their ironic beer of choice.