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TIL that in Persian rug making, a deliberate mistake is always placed in the rug because ‘to weave a perfect rug or carpet would be an offence to Allah’

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PYONL TIL half of the youth who age out of the American foster system will not have a steady job at age 24. Less than 3% will earn a college degree at any point in their life.
mx5P TIL Oil companies dumped gasoline in rivers before it was popular to use as a fuel.
nD4d TIL that YouTube had to update their view count from 32-bit to 64-bit solely because Gangnam Style had too many views.
9wY86 TIL in 1918, the German Army ordered a Jewish census of it's troops to prove that Jews avoided combat. Instead, the census proved the opposite that Jews were over-represented in fighting positions and in the army as a whole.
Z6RY TIL that Tupac Shakur’s godmother was convicted of killing a police officer, escaped prison, and soon fled to Cuba where she has been living since 1979.