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xDjk TIL New Zealand has the highest rate of vibrator ownership: 38%.
eppnL TIL prostate cancer is the cancer a non-smoking man is most likely to die from in the US.
pYEop TIL that a deformed cow born in 1522 became a propaganda piece in the Protestant Reformation.
kaem TIL the oldest living tree is a Norway Spruce in Sweden which is approximately 9550 years old. This would make it around 3000 years older than the invention of writing.