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TIL Approximately 75% of the world’s population is lactose intolerant. The 25% of people who aren’t are generally of North European descent.

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9mGQ TIL in 2007, the House of Representatives of Oklahoma declared the watermelon, a fruit, their state vegetable.
oBdG7 TIL about Ota Benga - a Congolese man purchased by a white missionary - who was put on display in the Bronx Zoo. He killed himself in 1916.
KOlJ9 TIL Deep-Sea Gigantism is the tendency for species to be larger than their shallower-water relatives. Proposed explanations include: scarcer resources; greater pressure; and colder temperatures.
r1ko TIL that Carl Sagan wrote an article, under a pseudonym, that professed the wonders of marijuana. He was revealed as the author after his death.
p1VQ TIL the sneezing reflex from looking at a bright light or the sun affects 18%-35% of the population, and the scientific name’s acronym is ACHOO.