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TIL that in Japan, the sales of adult diapers have surpassed the sales of baby diapers.

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59XQ TIL that there are more blacks on welfare in the US than any other race despite being ~13% of the population.
Ooxxg TIL France's ruling class wanted to support the Confederacy and Mexico's Cinco de Mayo victory at the Battle of Puebla may have prevented them from doing so.
5Nm8 TIL when talking about how she had managed to become a model, Calvin Klein model Cameron Russell said: “The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery”
l78vA TIL during the 1942 blockade of Leningrad, where starvation was utilised as a siege strategy, those convicted of cannibalism were divided into two legal categories: corpse-eating and person-eating. The former were sent to prison, while the latter were shot.
ZDga TIL of Gregory W. Nemitz, a man who in 2000, registered land on the asteroid 433 Eros. The land contained $492 Quintilian worth of platinum. And, when NASA landed a probe on a place on the asteroid that he had called ‘Parking Space 29’, Nemitz sent NASA a $20 parking ticket.