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TIL South Koreans are required by law to use Internet Explorer for shopping and banking.

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Yppd7 TIL in 2010,a man bought a photo of Billy The Kid from a junk shop for $2,which could be potentially be sold for 5 million dollars.
7kxP TIL for those of you that buy glasses online, yet your optometrist refuses to give you your PD (Pupilary Distance), there is a federal law that says that they must give that information to you
b9wjZ TIL NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a tradition of passing around a lucky jar of peanuts throughout mission control during critical events. The tradition started with the Ranger 7 Moon-imaging mission in 1964, which was the first successful Ranger mission after six previous failed attempts.
R5RgQ TIL that there are some people who suffer from a condition where they are unable to sleep for months on end or develop near-permanent insomnia, leading to poor memory, coordination, hallucinations, delirium, exhaustion and eventually death.
GYo1g TIL they used boys as young as 4 to clean chimneys. Work was dangerous and they could get jammed in the flue, suffocate or burn to death.