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TIL that Yemenis spend an estimated 14.6 million man-hours per day chewing khat

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mDEO TIL Guy Fawkes is the reason guys are called “guys”
d8nvK TIL that, though sunlight takes only 8 minutes to reach from the Sun to our earth, a photon of light can take up to 100,000 years from the core of the Sun to get to the surface !!!
YpN0A TIL that at Noon, every April 21st, the day of the birth of Rome, the Sun enters the oculus of the Pantheon at an inclination, radiating perfectly on the entrance doorway: the emperor was fully illuminated when he entered in the Temple.
myrM TIL Tic Tacs are mainly made of sugar but are allowed to be labelled as zero sugar per serving despite sugar due to their weight.
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