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TIL 26% of the current population was born during or after 2004

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4kXvw TIL that cats are not nocturnal or diurnal, they are crepuscular: a circadian rhythm where they are most active during dusk/dawn (low-light hours)
jNxMa TIL European Court of Human Rights finds that accusing people on social media of sexual crimes without proof or conviction is an Article 8 violation and that European states have a duty to take action against it.
N7eoN TIL that The word "PEZ" comes from the German word for peppermint—PfeffErminZ
BgMWe TIL that normal blood pressure used to be considered 100 plus your current age.
bNkp TIL Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi who was considered to be the most powerful woman of the classical world, has had almost nothing recorded about her process because authors from the period treated it as common knowledge with no need to explain.