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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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MvXb TIL that due to time dilation its possible to travel anywhere in the galaxy within a human lifetime. A ship accelerating constantly at 1g (earth gravity) could travel to the center of the milky way and back in 40 years.
oRo8A TIL about Bishnu Shrestha, a Nepalese-Ghurka soldier who went up against 30+ train robbers after they tried SAing an 18yo near him. He refused money offered by her family, saying "Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier. Taking on the thugs on the train was my duty as a human being".
VBMj4 TIL Dancers say "merde" to each other for luck because it meant that the crowd was full, therefore the parking lot was sure to be full of horse manure.
wLDB7 TIL about Pili Multigemini, one follicle with multiple hairs fused together.
7roKp TIL About the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903, in which over 602 people died. It gained a lot of attention as the victims were mainly women and children from an upper-middle class background. The theatre had been falsely billed as “absolutely fireproof”, but lacked basic safety infrastructure.