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TIL in Japan adult diaper sales are about to surpass baby diapers

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eL86 TIL that the Dutch police have trained eagles to fight criminally driven drones
O6k4 TIL downloading copyrighted movies, music and games is legal in the Netherlands. To compensate rights holders, the government added a “piracy tax” to storage media, laptops and tablets.
D1oZr TIL about the Spotlight Effect, due to which people constantly believe that they are being noticed much more than they really are. Since the centre of one's own world is oneself, and not others, you cannot correctly evaluate how others feel about you.
Evl0 TIL on New Year’s Eve, 1999, Brad Pitt rented a Mexican resort, filled it with his friends and at midnight had the government cut the power and phone lines and send in troops to raid the compound and “arrest” one of his best friends on drug charges - all as a practical joke!
RxB1 TIL that sea otters have the densest fur of the animal kingdom with about 1,000,000 hairs per square inch.