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TIL: In the 2000s, Microsoft internally parodied their own box design and created a video clip showing how the iPod box would look if they designed it

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M860 TIL that the singer Drake’s nickname among his fans in China is “gōng yā”, literally “male duck”, while Kanye West’s nickname in China is “kǎn yé”, which in Beijing dialect means “someone who brags a lot with no actions to follow it up”
9YlKQ TIL that the traditional "Last Meal" for those sentenced to death begun as a way to bribe their ghost not to haunt the executioners.
4Xkn6 TIL: Texas has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world?
JYB88 TIL Most older CD based video games can be put in a CD player and you can listen to the soundtrack of the game
b6gB0 TIL not long after the Vietnam War, Vietnam’s army invaded Cambodia and stopped a genocide.