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TIL more Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity.

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XYNk TIL the US is pretty much the only first world nation, without mandated paid holidays or vacation by the law
YjJZ TIL There’s a book that contains a million random numbers and little else. Published in 1955, it was an important work in the field of statistics and randomization.
bA9Q TIL Stalin had a secret lab to analyze the feces of other foreign leaders for the purpose of constructing psychological portraits. For example, a leader with high levels of tryptophan was assumed to be calm and approachable, while a lack of potassium indicated a nervous disposition.
d8WdK TIL about the Doomsday Algorithm - a method to mentally calculate the day of the week given any date based on the fact that 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 all occur on the same day of the week regardless of the year.
d8kbd TIL that Churches in the 19th century would give out ice cream, dubbing the events "Ice Cream Socials"