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TIL the human liver performs more than 500 functions.

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BrWYL TIL when a perfume heiress disappeared in New York, her wealthy family didn’t report her missing because they worried it would bring them unwanted attention and tarnish their reputation. She still remains missing today.
J1WnB TIL Rwanda has the highest female parliamentary representation —standing at 64%—in the world.
MYdb TIL twins separated at birth, one raised by a German Catholic Nazi family and the other by a Jewish family in Trinidad, both as adults flushed the toilet before and after going, enjoyed sneezing in elevators to startle people, dipped buttered toast in coffee, and wore rubber bands on their wrists.
R5ov8 TIL although the Maldives is the second-least populated country in Asia, its capital city Malé is the most densely populated city in the entire world, with over 211,000 people in an area of just 8.3 square kilometers
XWQk TIL in an 8-hour workday, the average worker is productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.