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TIL that the Aka tribe in Africa have no concept of homosexuality or masturbation. Sex is only viewed as work to produce children.

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7rKX TIL that there’s a muffin shop in San Francisco called Double or Muffin. You buy a muffin and then flip a coin. Get heads and you get another muffin for free. Tails and you just keep the muffin you bought. Double, or muffin.
59lr TIL that since 2005, Staples has recycled 182 million pounds of plastic–roughly the equivalent of an aircraft carrier or 400 times the Statue of Liberty–via its printer ink and toner cartridge recycling program.
wLMR6 TIL that if Massachusetts were a country, its students would rank 9th in the world
wLnJE TIL some of the founding fathers were deists, they believed there was a god who created our universe, but they also believed that he hasn't interfered with it since its creation.
VBlLD TIL that Cyrus the Great was so beloved, he was the only non-Jewish person in the Jewish Bible (Old Testament) to be identified as the messiah