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VM9dG TIL since India has more than 400 million vegetarians, every packaged food or toothpaste in India must have a mark to distinguish whether it is vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The vegetarian symbol is a green square with a green dot in the centre while the non vegetarian is the same in red.
B0PL TIL More money is put into incarceration than education
564D TIL: The famous Windows “3d pipes screensaver” contains hidden Teapots as pipe joints. It was used as an inside joke & reference to the “Utah Teapot”. A standard reference object throughout the computer graphics industry.
0vYA TIL that Tommy Chong was the cell mate of Jordan Belfort (“The Wolf of Wall Street”) and encouraged Belfort to publish his autobiography.
bjP7 TIL that Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo were two magicians from the early 20th century who were bitter rivals. While Ching Ling Foo was genuinely Chinese, Chung Ling Soo was actually a New Yorker named William Robinson.