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TIL the Butonese a local ethnic group from Indonesia uses the Korean writing system to write their language.

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9OOB TIL there was a fake French reality show in the style of the Milgram experiment, which made real and unwitting contestants shock someone on TV. 80% of them kept shocking the person (who was just an actor), even after he cried out for them to stop. 60% shocked him till he appeared to die.
rOr1 TIL that 35% of America’s high school graduates are functionally illiterate.
6EQXJ TIL Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer used to make internal videos to show to the employees of Microsoft, one of them involved Ballmer dressing up as Dr. Evil and Gates as Austin Powers.
d8mjQ TIL Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade was invented for the James Bond film "Spectre" and then adopted by the city so tourists wouldn't be disappointed.
Kj4G TIL a DEA agent accidentally shot himself in the leg while giving a lecture on gun safety and claiming that “I’m the only one in this room professional enough to handle this glock 40”