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TIL The average person in the world is a 28 year old, Han Chinese, Male

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WQEB TIL that a man was sentenced to be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children he killed and then his body would be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way he killed the children
O8p1 TIL that in 2003, American soldiers in Iraq vandalized the 6,000 year old Sumerian city of Ur by spraypainting “Semper Fe” on its walls. No response was made by the US government to the allegations.
kOPDW TIL one person in four is a 'supertaster', who experience the sensation of tasting more intensely. Supertasters have a high density of taste cells on their tongue, but are likely to have a distaste for beer.
m14eo TIL ; Illegal child labor is on the rise in a tight job market | CNN Business
dDw7K TIL that there is no recorded origin for who created the party horn but the world record for the most people blowing the party horn at the same time is held by 6,091 in Japan on 11/21/2009