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TIL There is a subculture in Congo where members dress up like gentlemen.

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nMjr TIL a camel can drink 53 gallons of water in 3 minutes.
xV7mg TIL locusts are not a species. They are actually grasshoppers which have developed gregarious characteristics in suitable environmental conditions forming an organized group
epj84 TIL that it is unclear where Wallace Fard Muhammad; founder of the Nation Of Islam is from, when he was born, what his ethnicity was, or where he disappeared to in 1934.
XElGj TIL The City of Omaha Nebraska is heavily contaminated by lead, due to a factory that spewed contaminated lead into the air. The EPA found more than 40,000 contaminated sites across the city, and children have elevated blood levels of lead.
b990p TIL "People forget 90% of what they read". Then I learned this traces back to Edgar Dale who published a 'Cone of Experience' in 1949 as an idea, NO %s given. In 1967 someone at Mobil Oil tacked on the numbers that are mis-cited today. I learned this yesterday also, forgive the repost.