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TIL Every 4th of July The Philadelphia Liberty Bell is tapped (not rung) 13 times to honor the 13 colonies

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MepRa TIL about the Odagiri effect. A media phenomenon in which a work attracts a larger than expected audience of women because it features attractive male characters or actors. It's named after Japanese actor/singer Joe Odagiri who starred in the Japanese tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Kuuga.
94G7 TIL That there is a bed called the Cuddle Mattress, where it is divided into layers of foam for your arm to slip though
KYA4J TIL Saccharin(sweetener in Sweet'n Low) is derived from coal tar
ne5bb TIL that the president of Taiwan is an unmarried, childless woman whose cats featured prominently in her campaign. She is one of the 1st women elected to lead an Asian state without coming from a political dynasty, and to govern a Chinese-speaking nation since Empress Wu Zetian in the 8th century.
G8wE TIL there is a programming language called Malbolge, specifically designed to be almost impossible to use. When it was created it was so difficult to understand that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear.