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TIL that the human body cant process carbs and fats at once, and it has a name.

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W7eKo TIL that in 2018, a 21 year old man in Germany was trying to win an argument with his friend to prove he could walk freely through Berlin wearing a Kippah. However, he ended up being attacked by a group of men.
V91G TIL that rolling the tongue or “taco” is commonly taught as a genetic trait in classrooms despite being debunked numerous times.
m5Ey TIL a 1996 school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland, was the catalyst for Britain’s handgun ban.
4ka6g TIL that during the Cephalonia massacre in WWII, after executing most of the Italian officers that had surrendered to them, the Germans forced 20 Italian sailors to take the bodies out to sea in rafts. They then blew up the rafts with the sailors still on them.
0A9R TIL a study was released in 2007 which emphasized that Generation X’s men made less (by 12%) than their fathers had at that same age in 1974, thus reversing a historical trend.