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TIL even though Canada has converted to the metric system, many things such as height, weight, floor area of houses, and more are still measured in imperial units

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x65X5 TIL Green Day bassist Mike Prichard adopted the stage name Mike Dirnt as "Dirnt" was originally a nickname that his friends from grade school gave him, as he constantly played "air bass/guitar" and made a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings.
AOva TIL that some Thai people will type “55555” instead of HAHAHA because the number 5 is pronounced HA
BgE9L TIL: The Capacitor Plague, where capacitors had much higher failure rates between 1999 and 2007, as the formula was miscopied when a scientist stole it through corporate espionage in Japan. They returned to China and gave it to their previous employer, who put the faulty formula into production.
8aXpP TIL that in 2017, 70 students drank so much alcohol at a house party in maryland that the air inside the house registered positive an a breathalyser.
OGGJ4 TIL Lam Kor-wan 林過雲 is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. He worked as a taxi driver and killed 4 women. He would pick up female passengers, strangle them, then take them to his family home, and dismember them. He was caught by trying to develop photographs of his victims in a Kodak shop.