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TIL that only 20-30% of Indians are vegetarians, and a majority of Indians are actually non-vegetarians.

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R7pp7 TIL that in the 1880s and 1890s, 'dude’ was another word for ‘dandy’. In 1888 New York socialite and Chow dog enthusiast Evander Berry Wall (1861-1940), dubbed King of the Dudes, won a 'Battle of the Dudes' twice. He owned 5000 neckties and once changed clothes 40 times between breakfast and dinner.
loGOV TIL that it is illegal to die in Longyearbyen , Svalbard group of islands in Norway.
Mem8B TIL that a group of teenagers back in the early 2000s exploited a park bench’s free dial-up connection (no I’m not kidding this was an actual thing) by making a couple of international calls, racking up a lot of costs for msn, the provider of the connection.
gMPkL TIL the Star Wars cantina players perform a genre of music called Jizz, making them jizz-wielders. Some jizz-wielders play an instrument known as a jizz box.
R7EY8 TIL that footage is called footage because film used to be measured in feet.