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TIL 1 in 5 people in shock will die due to it.

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nW80G TIL dessert pasta (pasta served as a dessert with sweet ingredients) is a real thing, including a recipe that uses brown sugar and cinnamon.
YpK7x TIL that Dominica and Nicaragua are the only two nations in the world to have the color purple included in their national flags.
8B0P TIL, the german word for Birth control pills is Antibabypillen.
69Wjm TIL The box that shows the score/time on screen during sports games was first used in England in 1992. The US started using it during the 1994 FIFA World Cup and it's been a fixture ever since. Before then, the score and time was only shown on screen sporadically.
kORgW TIL that in 1969, at the height of the Cold War, the Apollo 11 crew carried commemorative medals to the moon to honor two Soviet cosmonauts who died as part of the USSR's human spaceflight program