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TIL that over 65% of the world's population is lactose intolerant

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a5DL TIL that a Harvard Business School research found that sarcasm is the “highest form of intelligence,” as “interpretation and construction of sarcasm lead to greater creativity because they activate abstract thinking.”
oB8Ro TIL Newspeak from "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is based on an actual language proposal - Basic English, a proposed easy-to-learn version of English with only 850 core words.
daYZ TIL a lightning strike set a Jim Beam warehouse on fire, destroying 800,000 gallons of bourbon(19,000 barrels), but was less than two percent of Beam’s total bourbon inventory.
PYQje TIL that in 1905, 13 year old Ben Sands discovered an underground lake in Tennessee
9w8BD TIL Trick-or-Treating originated in Canada