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TIL that One-third of the world’s smokers are Chinese, amounting to a smoking population greater than the entire population of the United States.

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y1vv TIL of the Rule of 3’s regarding the human body’s basic needs: You will die if you go without oxygen for 3 minutes, water for 3 days, or food for 3 weeks - though there are exceptions to this rule.
KOmwB TIL that in the 1940's Coca-Cola produced a version of Coke called White Coke at the behest of a Marshall of the Soviet Union
Wk9KN TIL in 1999 a resident successfully petitioned to have the area code 321 assigned to Brevard County, FL on the basis that it is the home of Kennedy Space Center.
5aRB TIL: Weird Al Yankovic was going to parody Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die” with “Chicken Pot Pie” but McCartney denied his request due to being a vegetarian.
vVDx TIL: NFL cheerleaders are only paid $50 to $75 a game