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TIL that despite only making up .02% of the worlds population, Jews have won 22% of Nobel Prizes.

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GndE TIL Japan’s Okinawa Island has more than 450 people living above the age of 100, and is known as the healthiest place on Earth.
YwG TIL that at a dinner party, Richard Nixon said, “I could leave this room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead.”
BOkL TIL Forever 21 puts “John 3:16” on their bags because their founders are Christian fundamentalists.
lo44V TIL that tsetse flies, which carry the parasite responsible for African Sleeping Sickness, give live birth and lactate to provide milk for their young.
j6XAQ TIL Silphium is an unidentified/extinct plant - the exact identity is unclear, highly debated - that was used as a contraceptive and an abortifacient by ancient Greeks and Romans. The plant was also used as seasoning, medicine, perfume, aphrodisiac.