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TIL Hooters in China is known as “American Owl Restaurant”
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TIL The NBA players have a union called the NBPA and players hold official positions. Its current president is Chris Paul.
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TIL approximately 30 to 50% of East Asian are intolerant to alcohol due to a faulty version of the aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) gene. It may cause flushing on a person's face and body and other symptoms including nausea, headache and general physical discomfort after drinking alcohol.
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TIL after hearing Kennedy’s “end of the decade” speech, an Englishman made a wager with a bookmaker of 10 pounds at 1000/1 “that a man will set foot on the surface of the moon before the first of January 1970.” He thought it was “a common sense bet.”
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TIL: That the odor you smell before it rains is ozone pulled from higher altitudes by the coming storm’s downdrafts.
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TIL Salsa has surpassed ketchup to become the best selling condiment in America.