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TIL India’s Dabbawala’s food delivers are so accurate, Fedex and Harvard study their methods

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R9o7 TIL in The Netherlands, people swear with diseases. Get someone angry enough and they may wish syphilis on you. (Or cancer, tuberculosis, smallpox, etc.) The more serious the disease, the more seriously you have angered them.
R7nk4 TIL The 1 Percent Rule. This rule states that only 1% of an internet community creates new content. The rest of the community is divided between content editors (9%) and content viewers (90%).
ZO4G TIL that at one point in the 1970s, 1 out of every 204 working Americans was employed by Sears
XPjP TIL most “baby carrots” are cut-down carrots that would otherwise be rejected from supermarkets for being too ugly
mx9OR TIL if you hit a pedestrian with your vehicle at 30 miles per hour, there's a 20% chance they will die. At 35 mph, it increases to 50%. And at 40, it jumps to a 90% chance of death.