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TIL the UN has each decade's international focus and concerns predecided.

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AGKB TIL an Australian man once waited on hold for over 15 hours to speak with someone at Quantas airlines
nellB TIL in medieval manuscripts there are many depictions of knights fighting giant snails. There's no solid reason why.
4XPEw TIL: The story that Newton was hit on the head by an apple is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat in a contemplative mood, and was occasioned by the fall of an apple.
9JRG TIL men and women see colors differently. In general, women are better at discriminating among colors while men excel at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance.
vPGjj TIL contemporary hunter gatherers in Tanzania were estimated to have consumed as much as 100 grams of fiber per day.