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TIL about Shani Shingnapur, an Indian village with no doors.
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TIL postal codes in Ireland are so specific that every single house has their own individual postcode, or Eircode (air-code)
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TIL Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was kicked out of the American Library Association for constant unwelcome advances towards women librarians.
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TIL Listerine coined the term ‘halitosis’ in order to boost the sales of their mouthwash by telling people that they had a health condition. This has historically been one of medicalization’s most successful stories.
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TIL On the moon, mountains are formed within minutes
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TIL that Jerome Kerviel was the world's most indebted man, owning $6.3 billion dollars to the Société Générale.