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TIL that in Japan, “The Jersey Shore” airs under the name “Macaroni Rascals”

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W7vy9 TIL All digits of the each Anno video games title always added up to 9. Latest one being Anno 117: Pax Romana
j66YE TIL that there are around 50-60 blue faience hippopotamus statuettes that survived from Ancient Egypt. Due to the danger hippos posed in the wild, they often snapped off the legs of hippopotamus statuettes before placing them in tombs, so the hippos wouldn’t be able to eat the soul of the deceased.
kb14 TIL that scientists have discovered why some people can thrive on less sleep than others. A particular gene variant is responsible, and those with it can also handle extended periods of sleeplessness better.
nWBk7 TIL In 1989, when HDTV first came onto the Japanese market, the cost of an HDTV and HDTV Receiver which was required to pick up HD satellite television signals was $12,800 or $32,160 in 2024 money.
690em TIL that a professional grave robber in Cinncinati, Ohio who routinely sold corpses he had dug up to local medical schools once deliberately sold the body of someone who had died of smallpox to a school in order to infect medical students there who had played a trick on him.