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TIL that up to 25% of the Caucasian population cannot process codeine properly & the medication may not have an effect at all on up to 10% of the Caucasian population

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N7QV8 TIL ancient folklore saved several native tribes during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami (death toll 230,000). While many locals and tourists ventured curiously into the receding waters, the natives fled, citing "huge shaking of ground followed by high wall of water"
b9WPE TIL Greek Folklore says kids born between Christmas and Epiphany (January 6) are considered doomed to become kallikantzaros, a kind of half-human, half-demon vampire - with talons that lives in the underworld and comes back to Earth to tear its family members to pieces during the Christmas holidays.
GY1o7 TIL the crowd noise heard in Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” was added in post-production. The inmates were actually quiet during the song, fearing reprisal from the guards
D1GGp TIL that a successful ventroliquist's career ended when he switched from radio to TV as "his lips were frequently seen to move"
9YdM TIL British Columbia has the most ghost towns of any jurisdiction in North America, estimated at more than 1500