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TIL Kerosene fueled cook stoves cooked food using technology based on kerosene lamps. Over 3 million US homes had such stove in 1922

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9eYD TIL 0.5% of male Ruffs disguise themselves as female. By mating with other males they lure them away from the real females with which they copulate later when the dominant male is exhausted.
KNQw TIL every fifth person in Greenland tries to commit suicide at some point in their lifetimes
V4om TIL there are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world. And 23 of these languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people.
eLEL TIL Canada’s housing act once declared “Housing is not simply an economic commodity that can be bought and sold according to the vagaries of the market, but a social right”
P1KNO TIL In the list of the top 20 highest grossing musical tours of all time only U2 appears 3 times, grossing $736M in 2009, $390M in 2017, and $389M in 2005. Taylor Swift is no. 1 on the list with the only tour to ever gross over a billion dollars.