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TIL Uganda has the youngest population of any country in the world, with a median age of 15.

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9Y9DQ TIL that mud dauber wasps are notorious for building their nests inside the pitot tubes, fuel tank vents and drains of aircrafts and have contributed to numerous plane crashes throughout history as a result.
69rDw TIL in 2001, the managing director of Aston Manor, Britain’s 3rd-biggest cidery, plotted to contaminate the market leader, Bulmer’s, with yeast that would cause vomiting. The employee paid to introduce the yeast reported him to the police, and he was jailed for 18 months
jNbjN TIL that people in Canada eat Mac&Cheese more than anyone in the world.
vw4R TIL Only 3% of all births in Britain are to British Pakistani parents but they make up one third of children with genetic disorders.
x6OZ1 TIL the city of Tyre was on an island in antiquity, but has since become contiguous to the mainland. The causeway that Alexander the Great built to conquer it in 332 BCE resulted in silt depositions that eventually formed a peninsula.