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TIL that Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side of the road all in one day

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5YlVD TIL Iran currently is the only country in the world that allows the sale of one's kidney for compensation (typically a payment); consequently, the country does not have either a waiting list or a shortage of available organs.
W79NY TIL a dingbat wasn't originally an insult, it was a term used in typesetting for special symbols a printing press could use that weren't letters, numbers, or punctuation. A printing press would have them to draw boxes on printed pages or include symbols in the text.
AyWa TIL as much as 40 percent of bottled water in the United States comes from public water supplies yet costs up to 2000 time more
j6GxM TIL about the Great British Dog and Cat Massacre of 1939. In which Londoners, to prepare for war with Nazi Germany, voluntarily killed over 400,000 of their home pets in a one month period so as to ease the strain on resources. The deaths were found to be mostly unnecessary.
GAy95 TIL There is a federal judge in Ohio named John Adams, who replaced a judge before him named George Washington