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9wPdp TIL South Korea is the only country on earth with almost zero food waste
BgmOk TIL that in AD 70, Roman emperor Vespasian levied a tax on urine and sent agents to public urinals to collect it. When his son (who opposed the tax), asked him whether the coins he collected this way smelled bad, he famously replied "money does not stink".
Axrn TIL Men who do not have chest hair are deficient in a particular androgen or male hormones
7rA6P TIL At 24 years old, Isaac Newton was sent home from school to avoid the bubonic plague. During this time, he invented calculus.
Wkjg4 TIL Planets and stars actually orbit around their common center of mass. This common center of mass is called the barycenter. As a result, the barycenter of Jupiter and the sun isn’t in the center of the sun. It’s actually just outside the sun's surface!