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TIL Portugal has the world's highest rate of divorce, with nearly 19 in 20 marriages ending in divorce.

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518n TIL it’s likely Polynesians landed in the Americas before even the vikings. The sweet potato, endemic to Polynesia before European contact, is native to South America. Also, the New Zealand Maori word for sweet potato is kumāra while the South American Aymara word is k'umara.
LQQlr TIL Leeches are edible, but you have to take their heads off before eating, because they could anchor onto your throat on their way down.
YpEBx TIL that during an awards ceremony for the Seal Team 6 operators who were on the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed classified information in a speech. One of the attendees was Mark Boal, who would go on to write the script for Zero Dark Thirty
JYLR8 TIL that Sun Wukong from League of Legends was based off an actual Chinese Novel that dates back hundreds of years. And here I was thinking all those Chinese Mobile games featuring that monkey was ripping off LOL.
oE7E TIL, the Beastie Boys began as a hardcore punk band as a joke and mimicked their name after the Angry Samoans. They opened up for the Bad Brains and the Circle Jerks before shifting into a hip-hop sound