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

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ZpjRo TIL that there are guide mini horses who are service animals for blind people.
mpOY TIL Homestarrunner was the original creator of the misspelling Doge
R7Np8 TIL Tibor Rubin survived the Holocaust, fought for the US Army during the Korean War, became a POW, and had to wait 55 years to receive his Medal of Honor, all because his sergeant was an anti-Semite.
oEaW TIL Audrey Hepburn was a ballet prodigy as a child, but after five years of malnutrition due to German occupation during WWII, she was permanently too weak to dance, so she turned to acting.
jNblp TIL that when Shell Oil started secretly manufacturing several hundred thousand gallons of JP-7 fuel for the U-2 spy plane in 1955, it depleted stocks of a petroleum byproduct usually included in the making of FLIT insecticide, causing a nationwide shortage of the product.