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TIL: China accounts for 40% of the tobacco consumption worldwide. 52 percent of adult Chinese men smoke.

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gMGGA TIL Hall of Fame boxer Julio Cesar Chavez grew up with 10 brothers and sisters in an abandoned railroad car in Culiacan. When he gained fame as a professional fighter, Chavez would fight in exhibitions to raise money for the poor in Mexico, often giving out of his own pocket.
ADMVd TIL There was a racial underpinning to the German-Japanese alliance during WWII. The Nazis, from Hitler on down, actually viewed the history of the Japanese people as 'superior' to the German.
X0k6r TIL In the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvo cars from Sweden. The cars were shipped and delivered, but North Korea simply ignored the invoice and refused to pay. Till this day the bill for $70 Million remains unpaid making it the largest car theft in history
91kM TIL that a man in Michigan has 29 college degrees, and is currently studying to get his 30th.
Me05A TIL that People Who Frequently Swear Are Less Likely To Lie or Deceive According Journal Published in Social Psychological and Personality Science