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TIL Credit cards were never popular in China. The country skipped over a generation of finance and went straight to smartphone-based digital payments

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BrkVD TIL that the Habsburg ruler, Charles II of Spain, who had been born the son of an uncle-niece relationship, was described by historians as "short, lame, epileptic, senile and completely bald before 35, always on the verge of death but repeatedly baffling Christendom by continuing to live."
l75WN TIL that billionaires can avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes by starting companies in specific census tracts
DplV TIL that The ruins of the ancient city of Petra lay hidden until 1812, when a Swiss explorer stumbled upon them in modern-day Jordan. The man walked through the dark gorge for 1.2 kilometers. Suddenly, he laid eyes on a magnificent scene.
brDZ TIL it is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform. It takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious.
5Y8jD TIL what ablaut reduplication is. it’s why when we say clip-clop instead of clop-clip (this is because you always put an I, Then A, then O for 3 words and I then A or O for 2)