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TIL: The United States consumes 80% of the world’s opioids

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e0jZg TIL that Plato was a wrestler. The historian Diogenes Laërtius tells us that Platon, meaning "broad shouldered," was the philosopher’s wrestling nickname.
kPa7 TIL paleontologists at Kent State University discovered a new species of hermit crab on the same day Michael Jackson died. They named it Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni in his honor.
rR4E0 TIL of the Greenland shark, who can live up to 500 years, and only reaches reproductive maturity at 150 years old
VAL8 TIL that in South Korea, shoe sizes are just your foot length in millimetres
d848 TIL cats may have been domesticated 12,000 years because in the shift from hunter/gatherers to agricultural civ, the influx of mice led to wild cats coming to live near their prey.