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TIL many keyboards in Japan have small space bars to make room for a language switching key

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mxaxy TIL there is a company called Crowds on Demand you can use to hire actors to pose as fans, paparazzi, security guards, or protestors.
XPND TIL the callers on Grand Theft Auto IV’s talk shows are actually fans of the series that entered a phone-in competition. Entrants were asked to talk about everything they think is wrong with “America, Liberals or Your Health”
yVyYJ TIL that a 2016 facial recognition test gave a 95% likelihood, the highest possible score, that a man in a post-WW2 photo was Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew whose assassination of a diplomat was used as an excuse by the Nazis to instigate Kristallnacht & who was long-presumed to have died during the war.
Wm1B TIL the SAT was adapted to fit an American “Common Core” education. Logic-based word problems for math were replaced with clear equations, arcane vocabulary was replaced with common words from the workplace, multiple choices were simplified from 5 choices to 4, and the essay portion is now optional.
Q46d TIL there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in chess.