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TIL that because nicotine has an affinity for melanin-containing tissues, skin colour has a direct biological impact on one's ability to quit smoking.

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N7YNE TIL Iranian men have gained an average of 16.5 cm in height, and South Korean women 20.2 cm, becoming the people that have grown the fastest in the last century
0wJ8j TIL - A Box Social is a tradition where women fill a box with a meal and men bid on the box with the expectation to share the meal with the woman whose box it is. It is typically used as a fundraiser.
grlEA TIL: The first Western film to be broadcast in North Korea was "Bend It Like Beckham," which state-run TV played on 26th December 2002.
X4OR TIL that odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 5000. Odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 11 million. And even if you are involved in a plane crash, statistically you have a 76% chance of survival.
QJ8wd TIL of Army pilot Phil Rasmussen, who on the morning of pearl harbor, strapped a .45 to his pajamas and took to the skies to engage Japanese zeroes. He barely managed to land his plane, which some accounts say had over 500 bullet holes.