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TIL 30% of American adults do not consume any alcohol ever

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RY99 TIL of Cocaine Bear, AKA Pablo Eskobear. The bear died in a National Forest in Kentucky in ‘85 after ingesting a portion of 75lbs of coke ($15mil value) that had been dropped by a drug-smuggling, corrupt, fugitive lawyer who had been parachuting with it before falling to his death.
w64M TIL There has been a very real problem in Northern Canada for decades. Native hitchhikers, mostly women, tend to go missing without explanation along a 800km stretch of road known as the Highway of Tears. Many think it is caused predominantly by 1-2 unknown serial killers.
W7eb8 TIL that of the roughly 615,000 men that Napoleon invaded Russia with, only about 18% managed to return home.
D9lJ TIL the town of Why, Arizona was originally to be named “Y” because two major highways, State Routes 85 and 86, originally intersected in a Y-intersection but the state requires at least 3 letters in its city names.
R7ndl TIL That the Chinese Segway rip off, 9Bot, used the money it got from selling the rip off to buy the original Segway company.