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TIL that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. lack the math competency expected of an 8th grader

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wLlr1 TIL the average American male weighs 196lbs (89kg), and the average American female 168lbs (76kg)
e0yJ4 TIL Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The 1929 Lateran Treaty ended the dispute between the Italian government & the Catholic Church, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (> $1 billion today) for the Papal states.
E5JW TIL that the reason we say “redhead” instead of “orangehead”“ for hair color is because English didn’t differentiate between the colors until the 1540s, long after the term was coined.
N7K7Q TIL we talk to ourselves at an equivalent rate of 4,000 words per minute.