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TIL Concrete is the second most consumed material in the world after water.

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JWok TIL: Every McIntosh apple is a graft of the original tree that John McIntosh discovered on his Ontario farm in 1811, or a graft of a graft. Every Granny Smith stems from the chance seedling spotted by Maria Ann Smith in her Australian compost pile in the mid-1800s.
69GbQ TIL Homicide is strongly correlated to depression and not to mania
D5kJ TIL that Netflix is responsible for 30 percent of all internet traffic
VBE50 TIL. Physiologist Giles Brindley, in 1983 presented his treatment for erectile disfunction by injecting himself before his talk and dropping his pants to show the crowd of urologists.
yVbeX TIL the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university, Yung Wing, arrived at Yale in 1850 and later helped send 120 more students to America.