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

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jN0LX TIL Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday in the US marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. was signed into law on November 2, 1983. As of 2007, only 33% of employers gave employees the day off.
9w0B7 TIL that Orangutans are the largest tree-dwelling animal on the planet. They are astonishingly intelligent, with high IQ and problem solving, and have been named the world’s most intelligent animal in a study that places them even above chimpanzees and dolphins.
JeWQ TIL a father and young son were kidnapped and brought to a construction site where the kidnappers cut the father’s throat from ear to ear, shot the son 3 times, then the kidnappers buried them. The father escaped, walked ¼ mile, and flagged down a police officer. He survived. The son did not.
5VM18 TIL that in Uruguay, until 2017 if you caught your partner with another person in bed, you were within your rights to assault or kill any of the parties involved.
yQe9p TIL someone in Voronexh, Russia vandalized a Soviet-era monument not by destroying it, but by painting it to look like Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants.