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TIL Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web

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ADVpB TIL: American companies were THE number one entities that helped Germany rearm them selves after WWI, illegally.
9OPX TIL France had its own calendar for only 12 years starting in 1792. Each week had 10 days, each day 10 hours, each hour 100 minutes, and each minute 100 seconds.
KYNXR TIL The Mendoza Line is baseball jargon for a .200 batting average, the supposed threshold for offensive futility at the Major League level. It is named after shortstop Mario Mendoza, who failed to reach .200 five times in his nine big league seasons.
W7Xnd TIL Max Planck opposed the atomic theory until the 1890s
vj88 TIL there was a traffic jam so bad that it lasted for 10 days with some people being stuck for up to 5 days. It was so bad a mini economy formed along the road to provide services to the stuck drivers.