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

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epgkE TIL there is an island off the coast of South Carolina with a colony 4000 rhesus monkeys run by a government research institute.
MeamA TIL A German man (Martin Juergens) claims the Moon has belonged to his family since 1756, when the Prussian King presented it to his ancestor as a symbolic gesture for services rendered. It was decreed the Moon would pass to the youngest born son.
wYmM TIL Like the city of Detroit, Pompeii was heavily graffitied.
rNyPw TIL about Montagu Porch, a British officer who became Winston Churchill's stepfather despite being 3 years younger than him
loNON TIL that after the John Amery was hanged for treason against the United Kingdom, his father Leo Amery requested that his own entry in Who's Who be changed from two sons to one