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TIL not everyone has 206 bones. More than a third of people have extra “accessory bones”

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R5Vj TIL that it was only last year that Russia acknowledged beer as an alcoholic beverage. Before then, any drink under 10% volume was considered a soft drink.
0YW1 TIL a couple people in Bath, UK opened a very short toll road connecting Bath and Bristol around a year ago. The toll road, which did not get a permit to be built, bypassed a short section of a main road that had a 14 mile long detour. They built the road in only 10 days.
5VOmR TIL that 73.9% of North Americans are overweight
b9Xn4 TIL Ex-President Ronald Reagan occupied the 34th-floor Fox Plaza office building (where parts of "Die Hard" were shot) til 2001, breaking tradition by using a private office over a federal one. When Reagan aides toured the 34th-floor in 1989, it was littered with shells/broken glass from "Die Hard".
kO4lW TIL In 2011, South Korea passed a law called "Cinderella Law" prohibiting children under 16 from playing online video games between 12 am to 6 am.