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TIL 37% of Italians have never used the internet (as of 2012)

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mx9Do TIL that the US stores apples in a process called Controlled Atmosphere. These are storage rooms that control the temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and humidity levels to put apples in hibernation which “puts them in suspended animation”. This is why we can have apples that taste good year round.
grxGW TIL: A six year old boy is the youngest soldier of World War 2.
4kRJg TIL that Michigan law forbids lawsuits against negligent bosses who caused employees' deaths. For this reason, the family of a mechanic who was killed on the job had to sue the car's owner in order to get compensation from the employer he was killed by (a Jeep dealership).
W7JQ9 TIL that Matthew Perry was the youngest one of the six-member cast of "Friends", being given the role of Chandler Bing at the age of 24.
a8Wjo TIL that the longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,' a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine particles of silica.