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TIL the average house in the US is almost 3 times bigger than the average house in the UK

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kObY1 TIL that the !Kung people, a society of hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, do not know their own ages or years of birth. This is because they have little use for numbers that are not of immediate practical value.
YppoG Velvet worms can shoot strings of goo Spiderman-like from their mouths to entangle their prey.
xvbB TIL a 24 year old made it to #5 on his national charts with a song recorded on a four-track in his bedroom. He opened for Blur the same year, and then died six months later.
kJ9D4 TIL in 1914 student William Bowlus and several other upperclassmen entered a freshman's room to haze the occupants, however one of the five freshman in there shot Bowlus in the abdomen, killing him. But the men refused to identify which one had fired the shot and a grand jury declined to indict.
epdAD TIL that in the 19th century, some American schools had a “dunce cap” for students who misbehaved or struggled in class.