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TIL that there are parts of the US in which adult illiteracy is over 30%

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jNRVM TIL that of the 5000 or so species of mammals on the planet only female humans have permanent breasts.
w8r7 TIL Roald Dahl (author of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’)was a real life James Bond who seduced women to gain intelligence during WWII.
P1amO TIL that a ghost kitchen is a kitchen set up to cook food for delivery only, across several brands.
P1WVJ TIL a survey of 5,188 US workers found that 46% said they take less paid time off work than is offered to them.
BnEx TIL that Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” is why we say “Merry Christmas” today. The phrase had been around before, but when the book was an instant hit in 1843 it popularized it right at a time when Christmas began to establish as an annual tradition again, so the phrase stuck.