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epVwE TIL Credit cards were never popular in China. The country skipped over a generation of finance and went straight to smartphone-based digital payments
R58Gj TIL Jaywalking laws vary dramatically from country to country. In most countries crossing outside of designated a crosswalk is illegal (atleast when one is available). In some countries like India and the UK it is only illegal if one obstructs traffic. The Netherlands has no concept of jaywalking.
NbWb TIL Doctors can now grow skin for burn victims using the foreskins of circumcised infants. One foreskin can produce 23,000 square meters, which would be enough to tarp every Major League infield with human flesh.
OGgYX TIL that 160 years ago Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and many more members of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment were killed during the American Civil War, in an attack on confederate stronghold Fort Wagner. They were one of the first African American regiments in the war.
wo5kY TIL Since the 50 State quarter program was started in 1997 the US Federal Government has made $3 billion from people taking the quarters out of circulation to collect.