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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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nWn6P TIL that JRR Tolkien never said Hobbits have unusually large feet. This notion was introduced by illustrators and later copied into other depictions.
j6XDN TIL Siri was initially a standalone AI app that Apple acquired in 2011
9ON6 TIL humans have an instinctual revulsion to things that look and move almost like a human, but not entirely
e0kaL TIL That Lions still live in their natural habitat in India. There are an estimated 650 lions living in Gir National Park. This makes India the only country where lions and tigers could theoretically meet in the wild.
54J8 TIL that in 1959, an experimental nuclear reactor meltdown in Simi Valley (35 miles from Los Angeles) released an estimated 458 times more radiation than the Three Mile Island incident. The site remains radioactive to this day, which is surrounded by 500,000 people within 10 miles