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TIL “Coffee is the second most valuable commodity exported from developing countries, petroleum being the first”

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wLEvJ TIL of the "Chicken poop prison" in Thailand. The ceiling of the cells was a grate, and chickens were cared for above the cell. Their droppings were then allowed to drop freely onto the inmate within.
x6brB TIL - 0.1% of males in Greenland are circumsized.
WVGA TIL After failing to make the NFL, Dwanye “The Rock” Johnson was broke, suffering from depression, and was living with his parents at age 24. At this point he decided to start training for wrestling
yDdV TIL there is a theory that cats became domesticated because they adapted to hunting the vermin found around humans in towns and villages. They were tolerated by people and gradually diverged from their wild relatives through natural selection.
Ypbjr TIL that 47% of random numbers found in real life (restaurant prices, city populations, goals or touchdowns scored, etc.) begin with a 1 or a 2. This is Benford's law. It's used to detect tax fraud.