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TIL pencil sales increased 700% in the year following Sudoku becoming popular.

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x7Ek TIL: The United States has “one of the smallest, least prominent warnings” on cigarette packages of any country in the world
1GeO TIL while reading about Stalingrad in 1942 that, by itself, the Eastern Front in WW2 was the largest war in history.
R79e7 TIL Entry-level animators earn around 200¥ per drawing — less than $2, with a single drawing that can take more than an hour. Work conditions are grim, an animator’s suicide was classified a work related incident after investigators found he had worked over 600 hrs in the month leading to his death.
X01jk TIL the urban legend of a time capsule buried under the Georgia Guidestones was disproven after they were destroyed.
LQdkv TIL 21 years before “Seinfeld” spoofed attorney Johnnie Cochran with Jackie Chiles, “Sanford & Son” spoofed him with Sonny Cochran.