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TIL only two US presidents had no ancestry from the British Isles: Martin Van Buren and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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rRagM TIL one large dose of CBD has been found to greatly reduce the pleasantness of smoking cigarettes
XbPX TIL South Korea’s national drink is soju, a clear alcohol, typically made from rice or barley, with an alcohol content of about 20 percent and a government-mandated price of about $1 per bottle, so all citizens can afford it.
xVPyg TIL Due to declining bee populations in Sichuan China from excessive pesticide use, farmers now have to pollinate their crops by hand using chicken feathers.
wLXBY An almost sci-fi study published in Physical Review Letters by UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Peter Hintz and colleagues could mean that there are black holes out there that would be more like portals than gaping mouths of destruction — if you didn’t mind your entire past being erased and entering into infinite futures.
9Y5NG TIL that on May 19th, 1999 when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace released into theaters, an estimated 2.2 million full time employees missed work to watch the film. Costing the US an estimated $293 million dollars from lose of productivity.