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TIL that the common saying to identify a poisonous snake, ‘Red touches black, friend of Jack. Res touches yellow will kill a fellow”, is only applicable in North America

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mxwDP TIL Differences in traits between wheat-growing north and the rice-farming south of China. Northerners were more direct and less concerned with social conformity than Southerners, who were more "interdependent, holistic-thinking and fiercely loyal to their friends" attributed to climate differences.
6ja8 TIL pants originally consisted of two separate items. & You put them on one leg at a time, then tied it around your waist, and then put on the other. Which is why we to this day, we say a “ pair of pants ”
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LPKm TIL 1,140 people have been diagnosed with cancer as a result of “exposure to toxins at Ground Zero” from 9/11. Over 1,400 9/11 rescue workers who responded to the scene in the days and months after the attacks have since died.