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TIL 40% of all Vietnamese people have the last name Nguyen.

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1aYwX TIL about the Faint young Sun paradox that in Earths early history the energy output of the Sun was only 70% of what it is today, yet earth had liquid water and a climate hospitable to the formation of life, rather than the frozen environment that it should be with the Sun's reduced energy.
9GJG TIL that researchers found that growing up poor promotes eating in the absence of hunger in adulthood, regardless of one’s financial status as an adult.
awQ4N TIL "Orange" as a color was named after the fruit. Before oranges were discovered, "geoluread" (yellowred) was the English word used to describe it.
BrQ0r TIL that Ruth Coker Burkes cared for hundreds of people dying of AIDS, abandoned by their families because of their "sin".
yY5v TIL psychologists have no idea how to rehabilitate sex offenders. There is no scientific evidence that therapy prevents sex criminals from striking again, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.