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TIL 11% of US working age adults are on antidepressants.
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TIL One of the reasons a full circle is 'decided' to be 360 degrees (and not a more obvious number, such as 100) because 360 is divisible by 24 different numbers, which makes it easy for math calculations. In contrast, 100 is only divisible by 9 different numbers.
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TIL "in Russia, Norway and many northern and eastern European countries synchronized clapping is more popular than random clapping."
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TIL that Werner Herzog claimed he would eat his own shoes if Errol Morris would ever complete the movie "Gates of Heaven". When he actually did, Herzog followed his own claim which is documented as the movie "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe"
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TIL when you are in Sweden you have the year-round right to walk, cycle, ride, ski and camp on any land, with few exceptions, due to The Right of Public Access, or ‘Allemansrätt’.
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TIL that Tolkien's dislike of Snow White led him to prohibit the Disney studio from ever producing his works