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TIL alcohol made up 21% of sales for restaurants in 2023

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a80ao TIL about the homunculus man, which shows an exaggerated human figure that illustrates the proportion of the brain devoted to the sense of touch in each part of the body.
N6MJ TIL When Jimmy Carter was a young Nuclear officer in the US Navy, they sent him to help a partial meltdown in a Canadian nuclear reactor. They built an exact copy of the reactor to train with, then lowered him into the still extremely radioactive reactor to take it apart one piece at a time.
yVGle TIL Abraham Lincoln had already seen the play “Our American Cousin” and did not like it. He went at the insistence of his wife stating, "All right, Mary, I'll go; but if I don't go down in history as the martyr President, I miss my guess."
R5WVl TIL that a 35-Year Old Japanese Man, Watanabe Ryuta, has 4 Wives, 2 Girlfriends, and 3 Children. He said that he plans to break the record of having the most children in Japan, which is 53. He also stated that he has already decided who his "Fifth Wife" will be.
6bNl TIL that the funny viral photos of our cats and dogs pressing their heads against the wall, is actually a sign of neurological illness and should be taken very seriously.