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TIL next year’s Super Bowl (2016) will use the Arabic numeral 50 instead of Roman Numeral L because L would not be aesthetically pleasing

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JAWk TIL that Toyota was founded by a man named Akio Toyoda, but named Toyota because of Japanese superstition: writing the symbols “Toyota” requires 8 brushstrokes, a lucky number in Japan, while the 10 brushstrokes of “Toyoda” is an inauspicious sign.
yrmJ TIL the river Congo is at one point 8 MILES wide
yVoyM TIL there has not been a midair collision of a jet airliner in the US in 36 years. From 1960 to 1986 there were eight such crashes, including one with a fighter jet near Los Angeles in 1971.
M77DW TIL about Ttongsul, an ancient Korean medicine made from fermented poop of a 4-7yo child
Brple TIL Two orphan South Korean Sisters were separated in 40 years and were reunited while working on the same floor of the same shift in Florida Hospital