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R7LQ8 TIL Safer Internet Day is an Internet risk awareness day held every second day of the second week of February in the European Union. It conducts awareness campaigns focusing on issues related to cyberbullying, child pornography & pedophilia online, sexting, loss of privacy, sedentary lifestyle, etc.
KDp6 TIL that the assassin order in the Assassin’s Creed video game series was actually based on a real order of assassins that existed in Persia and Syria from the 11th-13th century.
KYlb9 TIL Unlike in the West where people count on their fingers up to 5 or 10, the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea have a counting system using many body parts that goes up to 35.
YEgZ TIL More people live in California than Canada.
6EDPm TIL more than half the US states have laws requiring employers to give people time off to vote. Some states even require the employer to pay your wages while you're voting!