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TIL the United States is responsible for 90% of the worlds consumption of Ritalin.

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Qw09 TIL that in England during the First World War German Shepherd dogs were renamed ‘Alsatians’ owing to anti-German sentiment. It’s only relatively recently that the correct term 'German Shepherd’ has come back into common usage.
ylGv TIL that Tim Curry was originally casted to be the voice of the Joker. His voice was deemed too scary and lost the part to Mark Hamill.
x6dD TIL The cymbal manufacturer Zildjian was founded in Istanbul nearly 400 years ago
jn9v TIL in 1951 a researcher discovered something never seen before. Cells from a woman named Henrietta Lacks could be kept alive and grown. 20 tons of her cells have been grown to date.
m1LPO TIL: Owls ears are vertically asymmetric, giving them "stereo" hearing vertically as well as horizontally.