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TIL On average, every person older than 15 in colonial America drank the equivalent of 7 shots of alcohol PER DAY

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78eap TIL during sex men burn 101 calories on average while women burn 69
wL5rM TIL Great white sharks DO NOT mistake human divers for pinnipeds (seals and sea lions). Attacks on people occur because they are sharp sighted, curious animals, prone to taking "taste tests" of unfamiliar objects that catch their eye.
GYNRN TIL That K2 is only 237 meters(777ft) shorter then Mt. Everest and is considered far more challenging to ascend, about one person dies on the mountain for every four who reach the summit.
omWE TIL Germany builds about twice as much cars as the U.S. while paying its workers twice as much
xVDNk TIL in 16th century France, a lawyer successfully defended a group of rats in a court of law, which accused them of eating the barley-crop of local farmers. The court put up posters in nearby towns summoning the rats to court and asked the townspeople to move their cats indoors for their safety .