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TIL that more than 2000 baby girls in the US were named Khaleesi from 2014-2018

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AN0od TIL that Video Game Arcades are niche and super rare in Germany. In the 1980s, the protections for minors became significantly stricter in relation to video game arcades. Arcade machines were dismissed as “games of chance” and underage access was and IS STILL denied.
J1Vp1 TIL kodinhi in india records insanely high twin rates and experts still don't know why
kOyj4 TIL of the Truth about Hansel and Gretel - a book that purportedly uncovered the origins of the myth: a baker named Hans Metzler and his sister Gretel killed an old woman for her recipe for gingerbread. Wildly popular, the book was soon discovered to be a hoax
vPmmR TIL that the Germans invaded Norway off of maps from a tourist guidebook. Hitler gave the commanding ground general less than eight hours to plan the invasion so the general picked up a guidebook at a nearby stationary store. Norway resisted for 61 days - the longest of any German defeated nation.
woveo TIL only 8,012 of the 1928 US $1 bill were circulated in America. The rest were stored in a vault for 15 years. From November 1948 to February 1949; 1,872,012 of these $1 bills were sent to Puerto Rico, because "these notes would raise questions if circulated in the continental United States"