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TIL 55-60% of people in Pakistan marry their first cousin

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ne5wW TIL Huey Lewis is no longer able to make music due to Ménière’s disease. He completed his last album prior to the diagnosis and is effectively done making music.
NX59Q TIL - All Earth tides originate in the southern oceans, the only place on Earth where a circumventing wave resulting from the tidal force of the Moon can travel with no restrictions from land barriers.
OEMa TIL of Crab Mentality; when a bunch of crabs are in a bucket, they could easily escape by themselves. However, the fellow crabs pull each other down so no one can escape.
gMx68 TIL that the Lotus Bridge between left-lane-driving Macau and right-lane-driving China allows for traffic to seamlessly switch the side of the road that they are driving on at the border.
8addG TIL Greenland has fossilized plants buried under 1.4 kilometers of ice. This implies the ice melted and reformed in the last million years.