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TIL housewives in India own 11% of the world's gold. More than the reserves of Switzerland, Germany and the United States put together

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kVj1 TIL that Thor Heyerdahl stated that ancient people from South America could have settled in Polynesia, but most anthropologists didn’t believe him. So in 1947 he built a primitive raft and made the 101-day journey himself.
6Eym7 TIL earthworms are known to live 10-15 years before they die.
0NPy TIL In the past 6 years, a recent trend has broken out in Jamaica to bleach skin in order to make it lighter and a popular Jamaican rapper has even released his own line of skin bleaching products.
loXJ7 TIL Commercial lobstermen make a v-notch in the tail flippers of egg-bearing female lobsters they encounter while fishing as a means to identify and protect a known breeder in the population from harvest.
EgGax TIL when John Steinbeck published The Grapes Of Wrath in 1939, a farm worker with two leaders of California Associated Farmers publicly burned a copy of the book because he did not like what he heard about it, even though he had not read it. After reading it years later, he said he “had no regrets.”