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TIL about Kosher Switch, a light switch that complies with the Sabbath commandment by only working sometimes and hence doesn't count as intentionally lighting a fire

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e0xwg TIL the son of a US Governor is 6,000 times more likely to become a Governor than the average American and the son of a US Senator is 8,500 times more likely to become a senator than the average American
wlBY TIL many trains in the UK still dump their shit directly on the tracks.
N4JN TIL that today in Canada, the penny will be removed from circulation. The cost to produce a new penny is about 1.6 cents. The savings to taxpayers by eliminating the production of the coin are estimated to be about $11 million per year. [FIXED]
Olo1 TIL that “Gravity Falls” from Disney and “Rick and Morty” from Adult Swim had a subtle crossover- When Stan accidentaly throws some objects into a portal in the episode “Society of the Blind Eye”, those objects come out of one of Rick’s portals in “Close Rick-counters of the rick-kind”
R7eej TIL about Democritus (460-370BCE), an Ancient Greek philosopher known for his atomic theory of the universe. He was a nobody in Athens and Plato is said to have wanted all his books destroyed.