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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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X0aGX TIL: Christmas has deep pagan roots
NXAG6 TIL of the Iffland-Ring, a ring awarded to the most significant actor of the German-speaking theatre according to its previous owner, who pass on the ring by will. It was also considered cursed when, in 1954, Albert Bassermann's candidates all died shortly after being nominated as the recipient.
ARYw TIL The average life expectancy for a white, gay, HIV positive man is 89. They are, statistically, the longest-living demographic of individuals in the U.S.
xV7do TIL that in 2003 DC released a comic miniseries depicting a Superman raised in the Soviet Union. He was used by Joseph Stalin to spread the fear of communism throughout the world.
pY504 TIL: The codes which allow the President of the U.S. to authorize a nuclear attack are printed on a plastic card nicknamed "the biscuit." The president is supposed to carry the biscuit at all times.