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TIL there are so many Thai restaurants in the USA because the Thai government paid for them.

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ZPba TIL that “stranger danger” is a myth: Children are twice as likely to be killed by a relative and 20x more likely to be killed by their parents than at the hands of a stranger.
gMYm9 TIL in all history people have only taken ~200k tons of gold out of the earth. To compare, when Edmund Fitzgerald went down with 26k tons of iron, it was one of dozens such freighters that's moves that much iron every single day the Great Lakes shipping lanes are open, a fraction of daily worldwide
jNYER TIL Bricks of compressed black tea (mǐ zhūan chá) were used as currency in Tibet, Mongolia and Siberia in the 19th and early 20th century.
LkyAV TIL that the average lifetime cost of dog ownership ranges from $27k to $42k
ANJOa TIL Arkansas men’s lung cancer rate is 40% higher than women.