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TIL Notre Dame Football isn't variant of football with different rules called Notre Dame for some reason but NBC coverage of standard college football games involving University of Notre Dame. Disclaimer: I'm not from the US and my knowledge of football ends with knowing what NFL and Super Bowl are.

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RN8 TIL the Molotov Cocktail is not Russian, despite the obvious Russian name. The petrol bomb was mass produced by the Finnish in the Winter War, and the term itself was coined to mock Soviet propaganda.
woVQo TIL that in Bhutan they prefer to talk about "Gross National Happiness" rather than Gross Domestic Product. Although the idea was conceptualized as early as 1972, it was not until 2008 that the first Bhutanese GNH survey was organized nationwide, thanks to a long questionnaire.
919Q TIL that the majority of computers do not measure time in hours or days but instead use “Unix Time” which is the exact number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. The current Unix time is 1467042820.
5Yy1r TIL that a majority of confederate monuments were erected decades after the South lost the Civil War
emgb TIL There is a negative correlation between incidence of rape and pornography use - as porn use goes up, rape rates goes down