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TIL the tallest building in South Dakota is an 11 story office building. CenturyLink Tower

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oRAJW TIL that ancient numeral systems like Egyptian hieratic, Greek, Hebrew, Roman, Chinese, and early Indian Brahmi were all non-positional decimal systems, requiring large numbers of symbols. The world’s earliest positional decimal system was the Chinese rod calculus.
va1L TIL “kummerspeck” is a German word that means excess weight gained through emotional overeating and literally translates to “grief bacon”.
mLoM TIL That after the poor sales performance of the WiiU, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata placed the bulk of the blame on himself, and took a 50% pay cut.
mj0R TIL that human zoos were a popular attraction throughout Europe and the United States as late as the 1950s. These attractions depicted africans and american natives as wild animals; some allowed spectators to throw bananas into the cages to feed the “savages.” NSFW
e0wvk TIL when Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, people did not buy them because they were very inexpensive and there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product.