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TIL: That there are 468,749 Philadelphians on food stamps in a city of 1.5 million people.

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lK55 TIL there are more than 60,000 slaves currently living in the United States.
0wPjA TIL of Wolfgang Pauli, around whom scientific equipment was constantly breaking. Once, he was absent and a piece of machinery still broke, seemingly disproving the jinx - until his colleagues discovered Pauli had been passing right by the laboratory on a train the exact moment the machine broke down
yQm7l TIL that New Zealand bans ludicrous children’s names that would cause offence: this has protected children from being called Stallion, Yeah Detroit, Fish and Chips, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, but did allow one to be called Number 16 Bus Shelter.
j6Rxn TIL The idea for what would become the George Foreman grill, was originally offered to Hulk Hogan. He declined. Foreman has made over $500 million from this product alone
VB7WB TIL that Gavrilo Princip was 27 days shy of the 20-year age limit stated in the Austro-Hungarian laws for capital punishment. He was sentenced to 20 year in jail. He died later 4 months before the conclusion of WWI.