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

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N7v9J Today I learned that testing to qualify an n95 is done by putting a persons head in a hood and then spraying something sweet or bitter into the hood and using the senses of smell and taste to verify a proper seal.
d81d TIL if you are 20 years old you’ve lived through over 90 wars.
jNRQ TIL that thousands of high school students watch 12 minutes of Channel One every day of class: A multimillion-dollar, corporate-owned program that pipes advertisements into the classroom. In return, participating schools receive technological grants.
Ode7 TIL adding the word ‘because’ to a sentence, followed by any reasoning, will make people tend to comply to what you want them to, no matter how lame the reason is.
JYed8 TIL that one of the people convicted during the (thoroughly debunked) Satanic Panic of the 80s, which accused daycare workers of abusing children for Satanic purposes, is still in prison