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TIL that in 1990, the US gov’t authorized sending coca eating caterpillars to Peru to fight the drug problem. Their poop is nearly 100% cocaine.

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OMZa TIL Jamaica is seen as “the most homophobic place on Earth”. Homosexual men face ten years imprisonment, and cases of beatings and murder directed at the LGBT population are extremely commonplace.
ZpYgQ TIL that we in the US don’t have small trucks anymore is because the government made a formula that incentivizes bigger trucks and cars
nObY TIL that Lactase Persistence, the ability of humans to digest milk as an adult, is only common among Europeans and those of European ancestry, as a unique mutation. Most of the global population, including 90% of Asians and 100% of Native Americans, have some degree of lactose intolerance.
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ZpKo4 TIL people on the Northern Hemisphere sees the Moon upside down and people on the Equator sees the Moon changing its top and bottom according to moonrise and moonset