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TIL 50% of all nail salons in the USA are owned & operated by Vietnamese immigrants and their descendents.

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kJ7E4 TIL tea was one of China’s earliest major exports. In fact, tea bricks were not only a convenient form for storage and transportation but were also used as a medium of exchange along the ancient Tea Horse Road—a trade route where tea was bartered for Tibetan horses.
DQgbP TIL Ex-Miami Dolphins RB Rob Konrad Swam 16 Hours to Shore after falling off his boat in the ocean
K4ER TIL a larger number of bumper stickers on a car indicates a higher likelihood of being involved in a road rage incident.
1LyP TIL that on April 6th, 1926 a boy named Phillip McClean was killed when he and his brother came across a Cassowary bird on their property. They tried to kill it, but it kicked Philip in the neck, cutting him, and he bled to death. McClean is the only person to be killed by a Cassowary.
dVpE TIL Teddy Roosevelt is the only person to have ever received both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Medal of Honor, the two highest nationally recognized honors for war and peace.