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TIL Turkey is first at tea consumption per person while Ireland is second and UK is third.

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VMWmQ TIL: The Soviet K-429 nuclear submarine sunk twice and than became a training sub
MKGA TIL two identical twins had sex with the same woman on the same day. She got pregnant and there’s no way to tell who the dad is because the DNA test claims both men have over 99% probability that either is the father
YM4P TIL in 1913 it was legal to mail children. With stamps attached to their clothing, children rode trains to their destinations, accompanied by letter carriers. A newspaper reported it cost 53 cents for parents to mail their daughter to her grandparents for a family visit.
EWEo TIL in 1955 the US designed a nuclear powered cruise missle. The SLAM’s unshielded reactor would sicken, injure, and/or kill living things beneath its flight path and its strategically selected crash site would receive intense radioactive contamination.
e0AE6 TIL While painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo wrote a poem about the physical toll it took on him.