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TIL Czech Republic is the world leader in beer consumption by far.

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P9rG TIL a group of 90 gay and heterosexual adults were scanned by Swedish scientists to measure the volume of both hemispheres of their brain. The study showed that structurally the brains of gay men were more like heterosexual women, and gay women more like heterosexual men.
R79B1 TIL Vanderlei de Lima was on track to win the 2004 Olympic Marathon when a man grappled him causing him to lose 15-20 seconds and finish in third. de Lima never complained about the incident afterward.
Y7LB TIL in Beijing there was a Traffic Jam that lasted over 9 days.
pOYb TIL atop a hill near Columbine HS, memorial crosses were erected for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold along with those for the people they killed. The father of Daniel Rohrbough (the 2nd student to be killed) cut them down, saying that murderers should not be memorialized in the same place as victims.
E0OP TIL it is still illegal for unmarried persons in Massachusetts to fornicate.