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TIL: that up to 75% of all adult African Americans and Native Americans and 90% of Asian Americans are lactose intolerant.

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g54W TIL that retired WWE wrestler CM Punk is now a writer for Marvel comics.
GVp5 TIL From 1998-2010, hedge funds earned $379 billion in fees, while the investors in them earned $70 billion in gains.
WQ7o TIL Jim Davis never intended Garfield to be funny, but rather as “a conscious effort to come up with a good, marketable character”
QN7yE TIL the Geographic Center of the contiguous states of the U.S is about 2 miles northwest of Lebanon, Kansas. It was officially established by the U.S Geological Survey and is a point where a plane map of the 48 states would balance if it were of uniform thickness.
v1Pl7 TIL about the 1936 soviet movie 'Circus.' A single white mother with a black child flees racism in America & follows the circus to Russia. At its climax, the cast sings to her baby in every language of the USSR.