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TIL Smirnoff is made in America

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a8V10 TIL Some biochemical reactions in human cells would take up to 1 trillion years to complete naturally — about 100 times longer than the lifetime of the universe. Enzymes perform these reactions in 10 milliseconds.
N7Lbb TIL that Korean art has a genre called “chaekgeori” that literally means books and things because their government banned books so they felt the need to paint real-life scale books and position them behind their seats.
d9dZ TIL that the Mongols pulled their bowstrings back with their thumb. To prevent damage to their thumbs they created thumb rings.
X0M5r TIL: Bugs Sleep
eWen TIL one of the torture methods used in gulags was putting the prisoner in a dark box filled with thousands of bedbugs.