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TIL that most people (60%) are lactose intolerant.

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oBGo8 TIL the character Totoro from Hayao Miyasaki's 1988 film My Neighbour Totoro, makes a cameo appearance in the 2010 Pixar film Toy Story 3. Daisuke Tsutsumi, the art director of Toy Story 3, is married to Miyazaki's niece, who was the original inspiration for the character Mei in My Neighbour Totoro.
BgxKr TIL The South Atlantic Anomaly is an area where the Van Allen radiation belt is closer to the earth's surface (200km from the surface). The SAA has caused false solar flare alarms, led to the destruction of the Hitomi telescope, and crashes laptops.
xVgwo TIL that Matt Keck, the man responsible for the famous "I'm a snaaake" video, now runs the Wendy's Twitter account.
a4x9 TIL that scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn’t cause cavities.
GA9pg TIL: In 2020, a study was performed by asking pedestrians to cross a street hundreds of times and found that the likelihood of a car slowing down decreases by 3% for every $1000 in car value. The study followed up a Finnish study which concluded Audi, BMW, and Mercedes drivers were unempathetic.