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TIL that some Native American’s have a differing enzyme that tends to lead to easier alcoholism.

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EgKxP TIL a 22-year-old high school JV girls basketball coach in Virginia lost her job after she played in a game by posing as a 13-year-old on the team who was out of town. Upon being reported, the team forfeited the game and the players (both JV & varsity) voted to cancel the rest of their seasons.
xJNw TIL North Korea’s literacy rate is 100%, according to the CIA
4pbw TIL that the United Nations has formed a contingency plan in the event that aliens directly contact us
Vn84 TIL that a WWII battlefield went completely untouched and undiscovered until 2010
x6xX5 TIL of Starlight Tours in the 1990s and early 2000, where an Indigenous person, frequently Indigenous men, is picked up at night and abandoned outside of the city limits in subzero temperatures.