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TIL that only about 22% of people have the genes necessary to smell “asparagus pee”

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j6L5a TIL if you see light like this in a dark room, you can see microscopic solid and liquid particulates in your eye. (see desc)
ZNxY TIL the UN put the cost of solving World Hunger at $30 billion a year. That’s less than $100 a year or around $7 a month per person in the United States.
KODPB TIL that since Milton Hershey didn't have any children he and his wife opened an orphanage school and when he died, he left his entire fortune and the ownership of Hershey Chocolate Company in a trust for the children in the school. Still today 70% of the company is owned by Milton Hershey School.
X4Lk TIL Civil Rights Lawyer Lynne Stewart had a 28 month jail sentence increased to 10 years for saying - “I could do that standing on my head”. She is now dying of cancer in prison.
XEGkR TIL people with “baby faces” tend to live longer healthier lives than those who look their age.