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TIL One third of all global homicides occur in Latin America, even though the region has just 8% of the world’s population.

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jWjv TIL that President Andrew Jackson once had a block of cheddar cheese delivered to the white house that was four feet in diameter and two feet thick, weighed nearly 1400 pounds. He invited 10,000 visitors to the White House to eat it and it was gone within two hours.
V0jQ TIL there’s a computer marketed to the Amish. It has no Internet, no video, no music.
mA7v TIL that for a short period of time, Pepsi had the 6th largest fleet of submarines in the world thanks to a deal they struck to sell their drink in the USSR.
v1Y6x If the task requires creativity or mental rotation, music can increase performance.
kyP5 TIL all the roles in ‘Alien’ were written as unisex, able to be portrayed as male or female. Ripley only became a woman when Weaver was cast.