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TIL Harambe means “all pull together” in Swahili, and is the official motto of Kenya

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xVKe5 TIL that David Hahn, the "Radioactive Boy Scout" was arrested in 2007 when someone saw him stealing a smoke detector. A search of his apartment found 16 more. Smoke detectors were one of the items he used to get the radioactive material to build the breeder reactor in his mom's shed in 1994.
b608N TIL Earths geographical North magnetic polarity is negative(-) while the South is positive(+), defying conventional thinking.
XEYPR TIL that there is such a thing as a fear of sandwiches, wether it's fear of sandwiches themselves or being eaten by one.
Wa8X TIL that Winamp went from version 3 to version 5. One of their reasons was that they didn’t want people making Winamp “Foreskins”.
MwEa TIL that there are people who believe our birth certificates are actually bonds for money deposited in our names at birth, and these bonds are traded like stocks on the NYSE.