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TIL that by far the largest consumer of tea per capita is Turkey, with over 3 kg of tea per person per year

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wlx7 TIL that Betty White holds the world record for the Longest TV Career for a Female Entertainer (75+ years).
OGKk7 TIL most of us will end up spending over a year of our lives commuting. That's nearly 10,000 hours sitting in traffic, packed into trains, or waiting around. Funniest part? Some researchers think that might actually be good for us.
6d8W TIL after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated, homosexuals still weren’t considered victims and were explicitly excluded from reparations.
wDGP TIL People who take vitamin B6 dream more vividly.
X0jnk TIL before the Great Depression (1930's), the US President at the time came up with a tariff strategy called the Hawley Tariff Act, despite warnings against it. It was imposed on many other nations, including Mexico and Canada, who then retaliated with their own tariffs, causing worldwide suffering.