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TIL that Japanese people can digest seaweed while for the rest of us it passes right through. (They have an unique symbiosis with a bacteria)

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eWY4 TIL that a Catholic priest named Michael Clegg first began distributing ecstasy and at its peak he was delivering 500,000 pills to the Dallas area per month.
nANY TIL that many Japanese women are embarrassed when using the toilet so they would run the water or flush a lot which wasted water. In the 1980’s a sound device started being used that played the sound without actually needing to flush. This saved water and is now standard on most public bathrooms.
69Nn8 TIL 55 million years ago, the North Pole was a lot like Miami today. There were palm trees and alligators, and the temperature was around 74° F.
xVayo TIL Uruguay's world cup player Luis Suárez has bitten three opponents under high pressure situations. He doesn't know why he does it.
6EmBY TIL that pith helmet was an adaptation of salakot hat native to The Philippines by the Spaniards, later on by other Europeans and eventually became seen as symbol of colonialism