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TIL 48% of the world’s population aged 15 and older has never consumed alcohol.

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NXx6M TIL Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) is a condition that severely disrupts your sleep, as it causes a strong urge to move your legs when sitting or lying down.
nowr TIL 15-year-old Jonathan Lebed was making up to $74,000 a day in the stock market by using internet message boards to manipulate prices. The Government eventually went after him, but he was able to keep half a million dollars of his gains.
4XA7w TIL transgender/LGBT rights in Thailand are extremely advanced. Due to Thailand being 94% buddhist, which believes that you only occupy a body in this life, so your spirit is different. So if you're born a man but feel a woman, there's more societal acceptance that the body is wrong not the mind.
ovm8 TIL The Philadelphia Police Department fired over 10,000 rounds and dropped a bomb on a house in West Philly on May 13, 1985. The bomb caught fire and burned down 65 homes, anyone attempting to escape the fire was shot at by police. 6 adults and 5 children were killed, only 2 people survived.
8e0DV TIL the pope has his own prime minister.