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TIL Facebook has more monthly active users as of October 2022 (2.96 billion) than the entire population of Earth in 1958 (2.92 billion)

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nwjY TIL: King Goujian’s army was known for scaring its enemies before battle by having his front line commit suicide by decapitating themselves
dAaB TIL that in the UK you are legally required to stop if you run over a dog, but not a cat.
a8AO9 TIL rusty objects don’t give you tetanus, but a bacteria found in soil. That’s why we associate a rusty nail found in soil with tetanus. A random rusty chair is just a random rusty chair
4k9rb TIL cars at the turn of the 20th century were more aerodynamic in reverse. They learned this after Chrysler hired Orville wright to create a wind tunnel for them
gMbx4 TIL that in 1790, Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimal-based system for weight, length, and volume that predates the metric system. If it had been adopted, 1 mile would equal 10,000 ft, an inch would be divisible by 10, and 1 cubic foot would equal exactly 1,000 ounces.