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TIL that Japan has aged so much that adult diapers now outsell children’s diapers.

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nenKb TIL Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro is the Only Coast Guard Medal of Honor Recipient and helped save 500 Marines at Guadalcanal. He died while getting the last Marines out. His last words were “Did they get off?” referring to the last of the Marines.
8a4AG TIL Beluga Whales have squishy heads
RA5l TIL when Disneyland first opened, so many weeds sprouted along the banks of the Canal Boats of the World ride that Disney ordered workers to place signs with exotic species names in Latin next to them to resemble an arboretum.
epM6E TIL that the idea Daylight Savings Time was first started all because a New Zealand entomologist wanted more daylight just to collect insects after his shift.
OGOP7 TIL the word helicopter is not derived from combining “heli” and “copter” but by combining helico from the Greek for “spiral” and pteron from the Greek for “wing.”