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TIL that Tibet is full of oil and gas resources.

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GAWR5 TIL Canada shares a border with Denmark as of 2022 following the resolution of the “Whiskey Wars”
jb1p TIL that three Stanford “rocket scientist” mechanical engineering PhD students invented a disease-detecting breath analyzer and were approved to test their prototype on human patients – all in under one year, an almost unfathomable feat in the medical device realm
lob6A TIL - Failure to learn the Mayan Nixtamalization method of preparing corn (maize) lead to Pellagra epidemics in Europe, Africa, and southern USA. Nixtamalization frees the amino acid Niacin. Nixtamalized corn and beans is a complete protein diet and became the staple food in Central America.
oRvDo TIL In the early 1700's, Britain sent over 50,000 convicted criminals to the US to be sold as laborers, mostly settling in the south to work Tobacco farms.
b9r9E TIL what would happen if you were swallowed by a whale