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TIL 49.2% of the population of Niger is under 15 years of age.

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neNjb TIL A Single tablespoon of ketchup has more sugar than a chocolate chip cookie
N7QvE TIL in Japan ~%99 of people are cremated. After cremation, the family uses chopsticks to transfer the bones out of the ash and into an urn. This is the ONLY time is acceptable to pass anything from chopsticks to chopsticks. Doing such outside of a funeral can remind bystanders of a recent funeral.
KOyMG TIL Collapse of Aztec society was linked to an outbreak of salmonella after the Spanish conquest
wEY1 TIL in 1922, Americans were consuming 1 million Eskimo Pies a day that resulted in the rise of the cost of cocoa beans by 50% and single handily lifted Ecuador’s economy out of a depression
p8Gep TIL that in WW2 a German spy landed in Canada, but soon abandoned his task to live there using the funds for his mission. He eventually surrendered to authorities and was found not guilty of espionage.