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TIL that there are 15 different plug styles.

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rN1g4 TIL Beavis and Butthead Do America has a hidden message if you play the desert scene backwards. Only took 26 years....
ne47b TIL the earliest known entry of an internet search on the word “jihad” was in reference to a 1990s anti-Barney the Dinosaur online community called “The Jihad to Destroy Barney.”
j4Rv TIL that when filming the movie Titanic they only built the port side of the ship. Scenes showing the starboard side were flipped in post production. As a result of this everything on the starboard side of the ship, from lettering to the buttons on costumes, had to be backwards during filming.
a8dOZ TIL that Hebrew, Aramaic, Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and other languages all have almost same word for "peace [be unto you]" as a standard greeting (generally with a raised hand, to show peace). (E.G. Shalom - Shelam 'alakh - Salam-alaykum - Salam)
VBNXD TIL that in 1912, a boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing. Eight months later, he was found with another family who claimed that he was their son, Bruce Anderson. The Andersons didn't have the money to fight in court, so they lost custody. In 2004, DNA testing confirmed that the boy wasn’t Bobby.