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TIL the reason why some lactose intolerant people can still eat some cheese and yoghurt without symptoms is because the lactase had already been metabolized by bacteria when processed.

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DQOgV TIL that a group of researchers hotboxed lobsters to see if they would get high. They discovered “duration-related THC levels in all tissues examined.” Along with a lowered locomotor activity.
vPXM7 TIL that 2 helicopters a week crash into power lines. 85% of wire strikes take place during the day, with pilots having an average of 4,000+ hours.
ALk7 TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized a significant portion of his doctoral dissertation from a dissertation written by another student three years earlier. King also plagiarized a portion of his “I Have a Dream” speech from Archibald Carey Jr.’s address to the 1952 Republican National Convention.
wLngP TIL in 1973 before reality TV, an anthropologist sailed across the Atlantic with 11 attractive people of different races/sex/nationalities. Known as the "sex raft" he'd purposely done this to stoke sexual relations, create tension, and purposely sought danger to see if humans would act like monkeys.
oBYvW TIL the full name of the country of Uruguay is "The Oriental Republic of Uruguay". Oriental meaning that the country lies to the east of the Uruguay River.