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TIL 55% of the world's population aged 15 and older can't swim

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em6L TIL that a transparent variant of Coke was specially manufactured for a Soviet marshal who didn’t want to be seen drinking an American imperialist beverage in public
18X4 TIL that Bill Murray considers Groundhog Day probably the best work that he has done. Before that movie he was seen largely as a clown. After it, he was a complex actor with range.
b9oJj Recently, while looking at the vibrant lights of Hong Kong through a bus window, I noticed for the eleven-millionth time those little dots and that black band running along the edge of the glass. “What are these?” I wondered. So when I got home, I called up a major automotive glass manufacturer to find out.
8vQ4 TIL in 2007 scientists froze light in it’s tracks, converted it to matter, and then re-started it a distance away
VMeYD TIL about Colorado City, Arizona, founded in 1913 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The area has the world's highest incidence of fumarase deficiency, an extremely rare genetic condition attributed to the prevalence of cousin marriage.