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TIL 40% of Americans never move from their hometown.

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0wP4M TIL Germany lost the First World War in major part because of underdeveloped agriculture and over reliance on import of food (the British Navy blocked it when the conflict began; learnt from the book "Cities" by John Reader)
REN4 TIL the United States of America has a mystery that one writer calls “the biggest animal cold case in the nation’s history”: cattle/animal mutilations. In Kansas, for example, cattle were found with “ears, tongues, genitals and udders all neatly removed. Often, the scene was bloodless and trackless”
VJVZ TIL that the brain consumes 20% of the body’s energy, despite it accounts for only 2% of a person’s weight or about 1.4 kilograms.
nARP TIL your body produces 3 highly illegal narcotics (DMT, GHB, and Morphine)
6EnWZ TIL "The Way" by Fastball, a classic 90's jam, is about an old couple with Alzheimer's that died while driving from TX to AR.