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TIL that because of Japan’s increasing senior citizen population, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.

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Wvm8 TIL companies such as Google, Lego and Xerox regularly work to avoid the risk of their trademarked names becoming genericized, because if those terms become fully generalized terms for ‘internet search’, 'interconnecting plastic block’ or 'photocopy’, then they could lose those trademarks.
QJMy9 TIL At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, a barefoot Ethopian marathon runner won the marathon and broke the world record.
gMan4 TIL of Scientists who dropped off closed boxes in a remote Ethiopian village containing tablets, taped shut, with no instructions. Within 5 months, the children had not only learned to use 47 apps, but also managed to hack the Android OS.
69oeQ TIL Jonas Salk, Who Invented the Polio Vaccine, Could Have Been the Richest Person in the World If He Had Patented It, but He Chose to Give It Away for Free
Kvo4 TIL Law professor Roger Fisher suggested that nuclear launch codes be implanted in a volunteer’s heart. The president would be required to personally take the life of an innocent person before taking the lives of hundreds of millions.