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TIL Out of eleven cases of blood alcohol content higher than 1%, Poland holds five

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jNp6R TIL that men are much stronger than women in terms of hand-grip strength (90% of women in the study generated less hand-grip force than 95% of men for men and women aged 20-25)
woA8W TIL about the Ray Mancini Vs Duk Koo Kim boxing match which ended in tragedy. Not only did Kim die of injuries sustained, but his mother and the referee to the fight later took their own lives. As a result of this match, the number of allowed boxing rounds was fixed at 12.
ea8n TIL that due to the decline of bees forces apple farmers in China to pollinate every blossom by hand using paintbrushes
P1LmG TIL: Elfriede Lina Huth Rinkel had been a concentration camp Nazi guard and then married a Jewish man after the war. She never told her husband before he died.
JYJwB TIL in 1946, one year after the end of the WW2, there was a pogrom in Poland. It was perpetrated by soldiers, police officers and civilians.