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TIL 24 of the top 25 countries for alcohol consumption are in Europe.

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m97x TIL that in a 1998 survey, 54.4 percent of Icelanders said they believed in the existence of elves
M7yyA TIL there was a craze amongst American foodies for guinea pigs. At one company in Connecticut, imports nearly doubled since 2008 — from 600 guinea pigs per year then to more than 1,000 in 2013. The animals, called cuyes in Spanish, are usually cooked whole, often grilled, sometimes deep fried.
MeVOW TIL of the "Monkey Love Experiments" where infant monkeys were housed with two artificial mothers: one, made only of wire, dispensed food, while the other had no food but was made of soft terrycloth. The monkeys spent nearly all of their time clinging to the soft mother despite the lack of food.
p8Lr4 TIL Numbered musical notation is popular in China, making conventions to encode and decode music more accessible than in the West, as more Chinese can sight read it than standard notation. Indexing with numbers makes it possible to search music by melody, but it has never become popular in the West
pYd0b TIL 47% of bald eagles and 46% of golden eagles show signs of lead poisoning. Sources of lead into the ecosystem include bullets and fishing tackles.