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TIL Kids aged from 2 to 11 in the U.S. see an average of 26,000 ads a year.

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pLQp TIL a NZ citizen was imprisoned inside one of the world’s harshest prisons in Myanmar for over a year because he posted an image of Buddha with headphones on his Facebook page.
XY1X TIL: Farmed salmon is naturally gray in color. It ends up pink due to food additives canthaxanthin and/or astaxanthin.
xGOg TIL Japan has had heated roads for 56 years which use shosetsu (snow melting) pipe system using the heat energy of groundwater to melt snow on roads
VBN4k TIL that Nintendo Switch cartridges are really designed to taste bad. It is coated with Denatonium Benzoate which is a bitter tasting substance that the company uses to prevent people from swallowing it.
e4d4 TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 4 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize