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Z8lxa TIL The biggest tea drinkers in the world are the East Frisians in the north west of Germany, consuming on average 300 liters (~79 gallons) of tea per person per year.
Xwgr TIL Shakuntala Devi, an Indian mental calculator,was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds. Her answer was confirmed by calculations done at the US Bureau of Standards for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
aw0KL TIL that physical exercise during pregnancy has been found to have a positive impact on the cognitive development of the child, as measured using EEG a few days after birth.
9Yp7G TIL Peter Capaldi chose a buttoned-to-the-Top white shirt as his costume to be reachable - so even poor kids could pretend to be the doctor.
woLNE TIL Andrew Jackson managed to get the U.S. debt to $0 in 1835