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TIL The average child in the US watches over 40,000 TV commercials a year

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LkRXV TIL that poultry farming is associated with 9 times higher pancreatic cancer risk
4kDWN TIL the NY Times Square ball is: 12 feet in diameter, weighs nearly 12,000 pounds, is covered with 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles, is lit by 32,256 LED lights, and can display billions of colors and patterns
95xB TIL Only about 60-80% of your height is due to genetics, the rest is mainly due to nutrition.
reRW TIL that Kevin Buddin, an amateur herpetologist, captured a six foot Taipan (the third most venomous land snake in the world) alive and, after being bitten, stopped locals from killing it. He died from the bite, but the snake was milked to provide the first Taipan anti-venom.
1OAr TIL that in 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister. The US and the UK violently overthrew him, and installed a west friendly monarch in order to give British Petroleum - then AIOC - unrestricted access to the country’s resources.