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TIL butter sticks that are sold in the United States come in two distinct shapes (although containing the same amount of butter) depending to a large extent on whether it is being sold East or West of the Rocky Mountains.

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W7Y4L TIL In 2011 the Belly Button Biodiversity project was created to study bacteria in the naval. Researchers found 2,368 different species from just 66 people, half of which were previously unknown. The average person hosted 67 different species, but no single species was common to every person.
p87Ap TIL approximately 15% of the American population, or 50,000,000 Americans, have an IQ below 85
0dR0y TIL Rugby was once an Olympic sport. The USA won the gold medal at the Olympics of 1920, and again at the Olympics of 1924. The UK, where the game was invented, never won.
Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
AN07a TIL that to save the Hawaiian culture and people from disappearing, Kalākaua, the last king of the Hawaiian kingdom, went on a world tour in 1881, and travelled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, and he became the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe.