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TIL Women and men who like the taste of beer are 60% more likely to have sex on the first date

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D1b0J TIL of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates: born in South Carolina the black son of a sharecropper in 1907, he danced on the street for coins as a child, lost his leg at 12, taught himself to tap-dance afterwards, was competing in talent shows by 15, on Broadway by 20 and performing for royalty by 30.
LXkm TIL…Ray Krok asked a group of MBA students what business was McDonald’s in. Their answer…Hamburgers. His Answer…Real Estate. Today McDonald owns some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
mxXYM TIL that although they live in a climate inhospitable to crop development, the Inuit do not suffer from vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) due to their diet of frozen and raw fish and mammal organs. By not cooking the food, the vitamin C is not broken down and can be absorbed by the human body.
4Xono TIL that the lengthy route that the laryngeal nerve travels from the brain, down into the chest, before ending at the voice box, is strong evidence of a lack of intelligent design and supports evolution.
oBAgL TIL a "whale fall" is when a whale's carcass sinks down below 1000m and creates a new ecosystem that can rapidly generate adaptations like bone-eating worms