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TIL that by 2020, the United Nation’s World Tourism Organisation estimates only 7% of the world will travel internationally.

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KOEa TIL the word awkward may be related to the Great Auk, a relative of the penguin. Which means socially awkward penguin just took on a whole new meaning to me.
L17V TIL Dinosaurs had giant fleas with beaks the size of modern syringe needles.
neBLY TIL Paul McCartney was arrested in 1973 for “illegal cultivation” after police found him growing cannabis on his farm in England. He claimed the seeds were from a fan and that he didn’t know what they were.
EWlw TIL that in the Vietnamese version of Cinderella (Tam Cam), at the end, Cinderella dismembered her step sister, put the body into a jar of food and sent it to her step mother to eat, which she enjoyed until she found the skull at the bottom of the jar and died of shock.
8avoK TIL that a 2003 study found evidence that Genghis Khan’s DNA is present in about 16 million men alive today. However, an article from 2015 claims that ten other men left genetic legacies so huge they rival Genghis Khan's.