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TIL In China more than 40 million people live in caves

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x6oYb TIL the last recorded Black Widow death in the United States of America happened in 1983
ADgAg TIL there's strong evidence that chewing gum improves working memory, episodic memory and speed of perception. Why this is the case is not understood.
R5WA9 TIL Illinois holds about 1/8 of all nuclear waste in the USA, by far the most for a state, about 10k tons.
e0wx6 TIL Manga is so popular in Japan that the country uses more paper for printing Manga than toilet paper.
kA61 TIL dying is illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway because the town’s small graveyard stopped accepting bodies after discovering the permafrost prevented the bodies from decomposing.