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TIL 1 out of every 8 Americans is Californian.

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6ExEW TIL before the mass marketing of tobacco, lung cancer was so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity.
wow4W TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.
1k7d TIL that there are a total of 600 on-screen deaths, in the movie 300.
eXg TIL that pugs were breed in china so that the wrinkles on there foreheads would resemble chinese letters meaning “prince”
e0Nmn TIL: Kokomo isn’t a real place.