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TIL Your brain alone burns 400-500 calories each day

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j64Ev TIL the city of Melbourne, Australia has more skyscrapers (150m+) than the entirety of Texas or California
XEvjE TIL the official rulebook of wife-carrying states that the woman that a male competitor is carrying does not have to be his actual wife - the rulebook allows carrying a wife that is "your own, or the neighbour's, or you may have found her further afield".
p8ApZ TIL In a speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, he mentioned that African-Americans in slavery often called Canada "Heaven." It was a code name used by people who were part of the Underground Railroad
KnZG TIL that in Japan, ‘39’ is common text speak for 'thank you’, due to how 3 (san) and 9 (kyu) sound when spoken out loud
Y74D7 TIL Independent tests (e.g., from Consumer Reports in 2023–2024 and multi-year studies up to 2024) show that nearly all dark chocolates contain trace amounts of lead and cadmium, heavy metals that enter cocoa beans from soil (cadmium) or post-harvest processing/dust (lead).