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TIL the birth rate in Japan is so low, and the boom of senior citizens so huge, that adult diapers have outsold baby diapers for the last 6 years.

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dLB7 TIL: A scientist let a computer program a chip, using natural selection. The outcome was an extremely efficient chip, the inner workings of which were impossible to understand.
Eg9MW TIL Jerome Jacobson led a fraud scheme during the McDonald's Monopoly Game in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He worked for Simon Marketing, the company who distributed the pieces, and generated millions in illegal profits. The FBI caught the perpetrators during an operation called "Final Answer."
xVYdk TIL that Germans are low in cultural context: individualism, alienation, estrangement from other people, little body contact, and low sensitivity to nonverbal cues. By contrast, the French are high context: closely knit groups, sensitive to nonverbal cues, and engage in high amounts of body contact.
j56a TIL that Edgar Allan Poe is considered to have invented the first fictional detective.
8aDyV TIL resident killer whales in the eastern North Pacific form matrilineal social groups, consisting of the eldest female, her children, and the descendants of her daughters. Closely related matrilines with similar dialects form aggregations called pods, which in turn form clans and communities.