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TIL about the Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people share a misinterpretted memory.

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PynE TIL Earth’s temperatures are currently rising at least 10 times faster than at any time during the past 65 million years.
vRjr TIL in 2002, Sega’s president donated all ~$695 million of his own company stock to save Sega from going bankrupt due to the Dreamcast; he died shortly afterwards.
16gp4 TIL adult diapers outsell baby diapers in Japan.
yVLQJ TIL that in 1979, Elf, a French oil compagny, lost over $150 million in a scam. Alain de Villegas, a Belgian Count, had led ELF officials to believe that a company had created a machine capable of detecting oil fields from the air. The scandal is known as the "Avions Renifleurs" ("Sniffer Planes").
5YR8R TIL Kaiser Wilhelm II had a series of birth defects, most notably a withered left arm. Treatments for his arm include: salt water sprays, cold compression, electric shocks, stretching, and putting the arm into a fresh animal carcass (Queen Victoria thought this was a bad idea).