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TIL of the Japanese Smoking paradox. The rate of lung cancer is lower in Japan than in the US despite a higher rate of smokers in Japan

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x6VL5 TIL the Butonese a local ethnic group from Indonesia uses the Korean writing system to write their language.
1lk8 TIL Fried chicken is a Scottish dish,brought to the southern U.S. by immigrants.
gD07 TIL: In 2008 two judges were found to be accepting money from two juvenile detention centres in return for increasing the number of residents, offences were as minimal as mocking a principal on Myspace, trespassing in a vacant building, or shoplifting DVDs from Wal-mart .
1OR7 TIL that even though Vin Diesel’s part in Guardians of the Galaxy consists only of saying “I am Groot” repeatedly, Diesel had the director explain to him what his character was trying to express with each line. Diesel did multiple takes on each line until he was happy with it.
Yp87d TIL fewer than 1 in 10 Americans meet the minimum daily fruit recommendation.