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TIL 30% of the power produced in india gets lost due to the outdated electricity grid

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Y7k0B TIL that in 2001, during the canonization process of Mother Teresa, the Catholic Church called upon prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens to formally challenge her sainthood before them.
698A7 TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.
yV7Zw TIL you are supposed to use a new section of floss for each tooth (not one string of floss for the entire mouth)
oRJ68 TIL that Ben & Jerry's had to apologise after inadvertently naming an ice cream flavour after a brutal paramilitary group.
x6vow TIL that it only takes five minutes for alcohol to affect your brain