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TIL there are no Starbucks in Italy
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TIL the YKK on my zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (which means Yoshida Company Limited). They make 7 billion zippers each year.
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TIL the “father of chemical warfare”, Fritz Haber, a Jew, pioneered many poisonous gasses for warfare use in WW1. He had family members killed in concentration camps by the same gasses.
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TIL that reduction in life expectancy due to COVID-19 was 1.9 years for men and 1.6 years for women
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TIL the African Clawed Frog provided the first well-documented method of detecting pregnancy in women. Injecting urine from a pregnant woman into a frog resulted in the frog laying eggs shortly after.
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TIL the average citizen of Liechtenstein doesn’t even lock their door because crime in the country is so low. The last murder was 10 years ago (as of 2007).