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TIL the Japanese word "Matchpump" マッチポンプ means "Stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution."

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WKEA TIL a woman sued the distributors of the Movie “drive”(2011) and the theater in which she watched the movie,claiming that “it had very little driving”
KYgEE TIL that there is a phenomena called phantom vibration syndrome. It is the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating/ringing even when it is not.
7Zex TIL: Cuba provides more medical personnel to the developing world than all the G8 countries combined.
jNOKE TIL: Big circles of brick set in the pavement of some San Francisco intersections aren't meant as old-timey street decoration. They mark buried emergency water tanks in case the city ever catches fire again. They were put in after The Great Fire of 1906 (the big earthquake then broke water mains).
ne4p7 TIL that Afghanistan has fertile soil perfect for growing pomegranate, but poor access to lucrative markets makes illegal poppy growing the more lucrative option.